The Imaginarium

27 November – 1 February 2025

Sydney
PETER ALWAST

27 November – 21 December 2024

Gallery 9 is closed until 29 January 2024. Exhibition extended for an additional week when Gallery 9 reopens in the New Year
29 January – 1 February 2025

In his latest exhibition, The Imaginarium, Peter Alwast presents a series of paintings that continue his exploration of social abstraction. Created between 2022 and 2024, these works engage with interconnected themes of communal fragmentation and the influence of technology on the eerie landscape.

Each painting in the exhibition is developed through a meticulous process over many months, intertwining improvisation, structure, imagery and abstraction in layered fields of luminous colour. With an openness to the unpredictable, the works in the exhibition oscillate between beauty, dread, and loss, capturing the intricate emotional terrain of the contemporary moment.

Engaging with a language that is both painterly and conceptual, Alwast positions his work within broader dialogues about the role contemporary painting can play as a repository of complex and contradictory information. The works in the exhibition function as material surfaces of conversion, drawing on various historic styles of painting while simultaneously mirroring contemporary anxieties and speculative thresholds for imagining new possibilities of meaning.

Peter Alwast
Smoking By The Pool 2023/24
distemper, oil and oil stick on linen
183.5 × 183.5 cm

Peter Alwast
Electric Eel Farm 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
175 × 144 cm

Peter Alwast
Soap Bubbles 2023
oil and oil stick on linen
122 × 122 cm

Peter Alwast
Landscape Problem 2023
distemper, oil and oil stick on linen
198 × 137 cm

Peter Alwast
In The Evening 2023/24
oil and oil stick on linen
97 × 97 cm

Peter Alwast
Dusty Fisherman 2023
oil and oil stick on linen
35 × 25 cm

Peter Alwast
Electric Eel Farm 2023/24
oil and oil stick on linen
35 × 25 cm

Peter Alwast
Guards 2024
oil on linen
55.9 × 45.7 cm

Peter Alwast
Outpost 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
46 × 41 cm

Peter Alwast
Skylight 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
46 × 41 cm

Peter Alwast
Psychoanalysis session 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
47 × 47 cm

Peter Alwast
Metaphysics 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
97 × 87 cm

Peter Alwast
Sleep Time 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
97 × 87 cm

Peter Alwast
Together 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
66.5 × 66.5 cm

Peter Alwast
The Balcony 2024
oil and oil stick on linen
56 × 66 cm

Peter Alwast
Screen 2022/23
oil and oil stick on linen
79 × 56 cm

Peter Alwast
Extraction 2023
distemper on linen
45 × 25 cm