PETER ELLIS 2018

Peter Ellis, RMIT Gallery, 17 August 2018. Photo: Julie Clarke (c) 2018

Yesterday I heard a wonderful talk by Australian Surrealist artist Peter Ellis. He was one of my tutors when I undertook a BA in Fine Arts/Painting Printmaking at RMIT from  1989-1991. I've always appreciated his artworks and so it was great to hear him talk about his art process. I proposed a question as to whether he considered his hybrids to be monstrous. His apt reply was that they were, by virtue of the fact that they have been traditionally shunned by a society that does not readily accept difference. Peter will be exhibiting works at SITE EIGHT at RMIT until September this year.