For news and information about Guy Peppin please visit: www.liverpoolstgallery.com.au Guy Peppin was born on the Northern Beaches of Sydney in 1980. After completing high school Guy worked as a graphic designer and collaborated with the Molotov Guerrilla Art Collective. Travelling to Italy and seeing the work of artists like Cy Twombly inspired Guy to go back to university and he enrolled at the National Art School, Sydney. On completing his undergraduate study of drawing, printmaking and history Guy was invited to do Honours Drawing. During his Honours year Guy’s work shifted into abstraction, dispensing with pictorial modes of representation. His work now deals with ideas of diffusion, erasure and memory. Peppin was a finalist in the RBS Emerging Artist Award in 2009 and again in 2010. He recently received the Storrier Onslow Cite Internationale des Arts Paris Studio Residency courtesy of the Friends of the National Art School. “My work has become a compression of form, edge, weight and colour. The verging strips of canvas have become more physical and more hones; geometry and colour have become more intense, with torn nervous edges. I started by making assemblages of different paintings torn into strips, these were reshuffled and reassembled and it was a breakthrough. The planarity of these stripes creates a moments of visual tension, where the conflict of the lyrical mark on a linear field is read as a liminal threshold at the point that we perceive this fragmented work. The challenge in conceiving of these new works was for them to be classical without being classicist and timeless without being aloof. My work now concentrates on making without being ritualistic and connecting to materials without fetishising them. Within this process randomness, arbitrary relationships and automatism are at work. Having come from a background that is embracing of technology, I see making art in this manner as a personal antidote to the increasingly depersonalising nature of contemporary society. I love technology, but the flatter and more seductive the digital screen, the more I want to make human, natural surfaces; I want to make art that is infused with joy, delicacy, texture, vigour and power.” Peppin deals with the play of a traditional and rational grid structure against imaginative colour and unskilled craft, the classical dialectic in the history of thought. Using a grid he is developing a practice of studying the constant effects of permanence eroded by change, time and decay. Peppin’s work expresses deep emotions through simple forms or colour ‘poems’ that take us beyond everyday life. He sees his work as an invitation to a conversation; a dialogue through colours and line, juxtapositions that are regular and irregular, contain harmony and disharmony, unity and separation, community and isolation, spiritual energy and sensuality, but also ambiguity and uncertainty as to what they are and what they mean. The work is beautiful, not relatively, but naturally and absolutely. Peppin’s works are represented in private collections in Australasia and the United States of America. He lives and works in Sydney. GUY PEPPIN Born 1980 Sydney, Australia Education 2008 Bachelor of Fine Art Honours (Drawing), National Art School, Sydney, Australia 2007-2005 Bachelor of Fine Art, National Art School, Sydney, Australia 2001-1999 Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design, SIT Design Centre Enmore, Sydney Exhibitions 2010 Voyager, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney 2010 RBS Emerging Artist Award and Exhibition, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sydney 2009 Return to Sender, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney 2009 RBS Emerging Artist Award and Exhibition, Royal Bank of Scotland, Sydney 2009 Drawcard 2009, NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney 2009 Summer Exhibition, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney 2008 Virtually Obsessed, Guy Peppin and Emily Fitzgerald 2008 NAS Library Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney 2008 NAS Honours Show 08, NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney 2008 Heroin’e, East Sydney Doctors 2008 Let the Blood Run Free, East Sydney Doctors 2008 Drawcard 2008, NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney 2008 Pyrmont Art Prize, Tap Gallery, Sydney 2007 NAS Degree Show 07, NAS Gallery, National Art School, Sydney 2007 NAS Studio Show 07, National Art School, Sydney 2007 Studio Show, Sydney 2007 International Show, Xanadu Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2007 The Capitals Project, Han Jun Arts Center, Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea 2006 Group Showing, Speakeasy Artist Space, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 2003 DIGIT International Poster Competition, Sydney 2003 ICOGRADA Galleria, ICOGRADA Montréal, Québec, Canada 2001 SIT Design Centre, Graduate Show, SIT Ultimo 1998 Molotov Guerrilla Art Collective, Unsolicited venues in London and Sydney Prizes and Awards 2009 FONAS Storrier Onslow Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris Residency Bibliography Arts & Events, ‘New Weave: Loose threads and kindred art,’ Vogue Living, July/August 2009, p.98 Woodard, Amanda, ‘New Blood’, Australian Art Collector, Issue 48, 2009 Jinman, Richard, ‘Exhibition a shot in the arm for clinic’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 23 July 2008 Dyer, Katie Honours Show 08, National Art School, Sydney 2008 Dyer, Katie, Degree Show 07, National Art School, Sydney 2007 Aitch Art Brutes, Anarchists dismantle the art museum Collections Private collections in Australia, the United States of America and EuropeTumblr (3.0; @guypeppin)http://www.guypeppin.com/<p><strong>*</strong></p> <p><strong>Wilder Shores</strong></p> <p><em>Again, on a wild and burning shore,</em><br/><em>deep with salt and thick with weeds,</em><br/><em>swept-up, beached and beckoned,</em><br/><em>by an unseen moon, unreasonable winds</em><br/><em>and waves tug at jetsam; like all waves,</em><br/><em>and push towards those fatal shores,</em><br/><em>what fortunate gales will have me</em><br/><em>surging on those scattered coral sands</em><br/><em>bleached and broken by underlining currents,</em><br/><em>I will write to you in wind and running waters,</em><br/><em>shooting at the sky to free a firmament,</em><br/><em>while night seas, stars and storms glisten,</em><br/><em>swing and batter; as I, long foam bordered,</em><br/><em>sky driven and sea blown, drift and sunder</em><br/><em>in waves, coming and going on gleaning tides,</em><br/><em>again drawn-out beyond depth, clutching</em><br/><em>flotsam fragments to wilder shores.</em></p> <p>Guy Peppin from <em>Voyager 2010</em></p> <p><em>.<br/></em></p> <p>Liverpool Street Gallery 243a Liverpool Street East Sydney NSW 2010 Australia  <br/>T. +61 2 8353 7799  F. +61 2 8353 7798  <a href="mailto:info@liverpoolstgallery.com.au">info@liverpoolstgallery.com.au</a></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8678383493http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8678383493Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:07:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplngxuDUS1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Marsyas 2011<br/></em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638034461http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638034461Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:58:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnff2iZO1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Mascarene </em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638017304http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638017304Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:57:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplng8hPhF1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Ancient Evenings</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638026303http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638026303Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:57:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnelk4nY1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Floris Belli</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638007478http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8638007478Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:56:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnd44p2h1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Home Over Water </em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637989934http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637989934Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:55:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnboXELf1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Le Hussard sue le Toit</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637972329http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637972329Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:55:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplncfUXTe1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> The Evolution of April</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637981564http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637981564Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:55:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnafrFo11r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Bacchus II</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637956479http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637956479Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:54:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln9mVh5c1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin <em>Bacchus I</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637947424http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637947424Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:53:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln8pVImY1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Mirror for Bacchus</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637936778http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637936778Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:53:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln7jDQv31r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Printemps II</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637922325http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637922325Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:52:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln6oo9DY1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Printemps I</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637912292http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637912292Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:52:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln459gHq1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Printemps I-IV</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637881793http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637881793Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:50:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln319EMn1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Standing Sun I-IV</em><em> 2011</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637868198http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637868198Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:49:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpln13hOVK1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Summer, a History 2010<br/></em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637845345http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637845345Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:48:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<p>*</p> <p>Guy Peppin <em>Return to Sender </em>11 July – 6 August 2009<br/>Opening drinks with the artist Thursday 16 July 2009, 6-8pm</p> <p><br/>The body of work in Return to Sender functions as a series of unreadable, ‘impossible’ letters: the scribbled and tactile surfaces contain private, hidden ruminations to friends and family, irrespective of time and place, at home and abroad, living and dead. The works are an introspective, epistolary response to personal relationships, history and culture – moments of condensed creativity in the studio. They contain elements of painting, drawing, sculpture and installation, placing the works into the expanded field of contemporary practice.<br/> Language is the basis of the work; they are handwriting as art, correspondence as image. The canvases are palimpsests of obfuscations and submerged excisions acting as liminal, poetic mindscapes that evoke rather than describe the subject. Art being, obliquely a kind of confession.<br/> My work concentrates on making without being ritualistic and connecting to materials without fetishising them. I enjoy the tactility of applying paint directly; I use my fingers, a pencil or a sharp stick, scraffito, smearing, pouring or splashing the paint onto the surface, letting it run wherever it may. I have also used materials that come to hand including natural charcoal, ashes and earth pigments.<br/> Layers of paint and marks are laid down, and then whitewashed in a continuing process of creation and erasure. The works are shredded and reassembled, resulting in legible words or marks being rendered illegible or fragmented for the viewer. In the process of reassembling the torn strips of canvas, the marks become scattered and seemingly random within this now overlapping and horizontal plane.<br/> The newly formed horizontal stripes are a compression of nervous, frayed edges – they do not deny their physicality. The juxtaposition of the lyrical marks against the stripes’ horizontality on a linear field creates moments of visual tension; the fragmented work is read as a limitative state. This process of creation, erasure and fragmentation ensures ambiguity, and with no possible acknowledgement from the subject. The works remain as transitional objects, potent yet inert as in-between spaces of a transitional threshold.<br/> Here one views a contradiction of art as confession; the intended recipient will never, ever have the opportunity to read the original letter. What freedom this invites.<br/>Sincerely— Guy Peppin</p> <p>Liverpool Street Gallery 243a Liverpool Street East Sydney NSW 2010 Australia <br/>T. +61 2 8353 7799  F. +61 2 8353 7798  info@liverpoolstgallery.com.au</p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8678857120http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8678857120Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:35:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplm6iXUne1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> Severen (life is crazy) </em><em> 2009</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637458427http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637458427Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:30:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplm75BfpN1r17vuqo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> The Julii 2009<br/></em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637466140http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637466140Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:30:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplm5cVngf1r17vuqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Guy Peppin<em> The Sea at Night </em><em> 2009</em></p>http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637443233http://www.guypeppin.com/post/8637443233Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:29:00 +1000guypeppinartabstractionguy peppinliverpool street gallerysydney artsydneyaustraliapoetryetchingsprintmaking