Peter Stichbury: The Alumni

The Dunedin Public Art Gallery presents 'The Alumni' - an exhibition of paintings by Peter Stitchbury, on display from November 29th 2008 - February 22nd 2009.

The Alumni: Peter Stichbury is the first major public gallery exhibition highlighting Stichbury's work to date.

Peter Stichbury's paintings are alluring yet ultimately contrary. Glossy and highly polished of surface, beneath the immaculate facades of his portraits lurk a darker underbelly. Plastic surgery, skin disorders, eugenics and genetic engineering: the human body, his paintings suggest, occupies a kind of shifting and fluid terrain where all things are possible.

Exhibition project commissioned and toured by Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts.