Peter Kennedy b. 1945

  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Designer (Architect / Interior Architect / Landscape Architect)
Peter Kennedy is an Australian artist, who with Mike Parr under the Inhibodress collective, introduced conceptual art to Sydney in the 1970s. His practice includes the use of neon lights, sound pieces and performance works. He is also an interior designer, former manager Georges Dept Store interiors, Melbourne, also worked with the firm, Interiors of South Yarra.
Tags: Conceptual art
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exhibited at
Peter Kennedy: selected work from 1970-2002
Date
2002
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Author, critic and lecturer Anne Marsh has described Peter Kennedy as 'one of Australia’s most astute commentators on the late twentieth century’. This survey-style exhibition of Kennedy’s work installed over four galleries is an opportunity to view a broad selection of the artists’ work spanning a 30-year period. The range of work includes spectacular neon installations from the 1990’s, through to watercolours, prints, drawings, photographs, sound sculpture and video. Works have been drawn from the artist’s own collection as well as from private and public collections around Australia, and include new work specially produced for this exhibition.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
http://www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au/site/pastexh.html#hany (310/01/03)

Exhibition Catalogue:
Peter Kennedy: selected Works 1970 to 2002. [Parkville, Vic.] : Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 2002.
ISBN 0734022077

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Painting, Photography, Drawing, Mixed media, Installation, Video/Film
exhibited at
Peter Kennedy: requiem for ghosts
Date
1998
Place
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Peter Kennedy: requiem for ghosts. South Yarra, Vic: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 1998
ISBN 0947220704

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Peter Kennedy: chorus: from the breath of wings
Date
1993
Place
Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Heide exhibition archive; National Library of Australia catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Jill Peck: origins and extension. Peter Kennedy: chorus – from the breath of wings. [Bulleen, Vic]: The Museum of Modern Art at Heide, [1996]
ISBN 0947104216

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Minor Solo, Mixed media, Installation
exhibited at
Transformations: installation of charcoal drawings by Peter Kennedy
Date
1993
Place
Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
TSG exhibition calendar;

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Drawing
exhibited at
The stars disordered: John Hughes: all that is solid; Peter Kennedy
Date
1989
Place
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
CACSA Exhibition Archive; AGNSW library catalogue; State library of QLD catalogue; UTAS library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
The stars disordered: John Hughes: all that is solid; Peter Kennedy. St Lucia, QLD: University Art Museum, c1988.
ISBN 0867762608

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Painting, Drawing, Video/Film
exhibited at
The stars disordered: John Hughes: all that is solid; Peter Kennedy
Date
1988
Place
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue; State Library of QLD catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
The stars disordered: John Hughes: all that is solid; Peter Kennedy. St Lucia, QLD: University Art Museum, c1988.
ISBN 0867762608

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Painting, Drawing, Video/Film
exhibited at
Peter Kennedy and John Hughes: istoria
Date
1986
Place
Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, TAS
Description

Organised by the Art Exhibitions Committee, Tasmanian School of Art. Funding by Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council.

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Exhibition catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Kennedy, Peter and Holmes, Jonathan, Istoria: Peter Kennedy with John Hughes, selected works 1978-1986. Hobart, Tasmania: Centre for the Arts Gallery, 1986
ISBN 0 85901 320 0

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Digital media, Painting, Drawing, Textiles
exhibited at
Peter Kennedy: November eleven and selected works 1964-1978
Date
1980
Place
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Institute of Modern Art exhibition archive

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Mixed media
exhibited at
Peter Kennedy: introductions and other than art's sake
Date
November 1976
Place
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, SA
Description

Exhibition and films from Two Projects (1973-76)

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Stephanie Britton (ed.) A decade at the EAF: A history of the Experimental Art Foundation 1974-1984. Adelaide: The Experimental Art Foundation, 1984

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Mixed media, Video/Film
exhibited at
Peter Kennedy, John Nixon: two contemporary artists
Date
1976
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Peter Kennedy, John Nixon: two contemporary artists. [Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria], 1976
[9] p : 34 cm

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Duo, Installation, Painting
exhibited at
Project 9: Documents, Film, Video
Date
1975
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition

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