Peter Bonner

Teaches at New York School of the Arts

Peter Bonner was born in Australia and he has since studied extensively in Melbourne and New York, and in 2010 he completed a research degree pursuing his interest in perception and the primitive. To this end he spent considerable time in the deserts in central Australia to understand the working methods of Australian Aboriginal Artists. Since then, Peter has lived in and worked in Brooklyn and developed a personal visual language that is both metaphoric and experiential in its evocation of memory and narrative. He has taught Drawing, Painting and Conceptual Thinking at numerous institutions and in a number of countries over the past 13 years. His work has been exhibited extensively both here and abroad, most recently at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson NY.