Artists

Peta Minnici

Bio  /  CV

Peta Minnici (b. 1990, Sydney) is an Australian artist working primarily in drawing and oil painting. Her practice explores themes of memory, longing, presence and absence, and the transience of life. Drawing on personal experiences, Minnici constructs atmospheric interiors, intimate figurative portraits, and still life that resonate with emotional depth. Through intuitive mark making and tonal brush work, her works unfold slowly – capturing the ghostly imprint of time on the body, space, and psyche..

Minnici’s work has been exhibited widely across Australia in both solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Brett Whiteley Studio, National Art School, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Chalk Horse Gallery, Kedumba Gallery and Clayton Utz..

Her practice has been recognised with numerous accolades, including the John Olsen Award for Drawing, The Parkers Fine Art Award for Painting, and the Kedumba Drawing Award. She has been a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Award (2019, 2021), The Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2017), Calleen Art Award and The Fishers Ghost Art Award and among others. She has undertaken artist residencies at Bundanon Trust and Presbyterian Ladies College..

Minnici’s work is held in both private and public collections across Australia. Her practice has been profiled in Art Collector Magazine, and featured in the Book ‘Still Life’ written by Amber Creswell Bell and the book ‘Clayton Utz The First Five Years’ written by Max Germanos and Dr. Judith Pugh.

Minnici holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing from the National Art School, Sydney.


EDUCATION
2016-17 Master of Fine Arts (Drawing), National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
2013-15 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting), National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
2012 Diploma of Fine Art, Northern Beaches Campus, Sydney.
2011 Ceramics Certificate III Northern Beaches Campus, Sydney
2009 Julian Ashton Art School, The Rocks, Sydney

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 ‘Residence’, 3:33 Art Projects Young Curators, The Chapple Gallery, Hurstville, Sydney
2025 ‘Recent Drawings’, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2023 ‘The Duality of Reality’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2022 ‘Upon Reflection’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2022 Survey Exhibition with 3:33 Art Projects at Clayton Utz, Sydney
2022 ‘Kaleidoscope’, Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
2021 ‘Marking Time’ Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney
2021 ‘Landscape Dreaming’ Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2020 ‘Looking In, Seeing Out – Bundanon’, May Space Gallery, Sydney
2019 ‘Light on Nostalgia’, May Space Gallery, Sydney

 

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 ‘Eclectic’, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2025 ‘The Highlights’ Exhibition, 3:33 Art Projects at Clayton Utz, Sydney
2024 ‘The Spring Show’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2024 ‘The Summer Show’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2023 ‘Small Works Click & Collect’, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2022 ‘Still Life’, Michael Reid Gallery, Northern Beaches, Sydney PETA MINNICI
2021 ‘Opening Exhibition’, Jennings Kerr Gallery, Robertson, NSW
2021 Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2020 ‘Bundanon Dreaming’, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2019 Kedumba Drawing Award Exhibition, Lost Bear Gallery, Sydney
2019 Dobell Drawing Prize, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2018-2019 Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton,
2018 Redland Art Award Exhibition, Redland Art Gallery, QLD
2018 ‘In the Quiet’, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2017 Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship Finalists Exhibition, Brett Whitely Studio, Surry Hills, Sydney
2017 ‘Out of Line’, May Space, Sydney
2017 Postgraduation Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2017 ‘The Other Art Fair’ Eveleigh, Sydney
2016 Co-Lab group exhibition, Centenary Institute & Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney.
2016 ‘The Chairman’s Dinner’ National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2016 ‘@variance’, National Art School Stairwell Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2015 Undergraduate Exhibition, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2015 Drawing Exhibition, National Art School Open Day, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2015 ‘The Grid’, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2008 ‘Express Yourself’, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
2008 Nominated for Art Express
2004 – 2017 Warringah Art Prize Exhibitions

 

AWARDS
2025 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, Cowra, NSW
2025 Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW.
2024 Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, Cowra. NSW
2024 Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Art Centre, Muswellbrook NSW
2023 Selected as a Judge for ‘Express Yourself’, Manly Art Gallery, Sydney
2021 Finalist, Dobell Drawing Award, National Art School, Darlinghurst Sydney
2019 Winner, Kedumba Drawing Award, Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba, NSW
2019 Finalist, Dobell Drawing Award, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney
2018 Finalist, Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (JADA) Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton, NSW
2018 Finalist, Redland Art Award, Redland Art Gallery, QLD
2017 Finalist, Brett Whitely Travelling Art Scholarship, AGNSW
2015 Winner, The John Olsen Award for Drawing National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
2015 Winner, Parkers Fine Art Award for Painting, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
2015 Winner, Parkers Fine Art Framing Award for All Disciplines, National Art School, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
2007 Highly Commended, Warringah Art Prize, Sydney 

RESIDENCIES
2021 Artist in Residence, Presbyterian Ladies College, Croydon, Sydney
2020 Artist in Residence, Presbyterian Ladies College, Croydon, Sydney
2019 Artist in Residence, Bundanon Trust (Awarded Fellowship), Nowra, NSW

PUBLICATIONS/MEDIA
2023 Book, Clayton Utz Art Partnership, ‘The First Five Years’ published in conjunction with Clayton Utz, 3:33 Art Projects, Bandicoot Publishing Pty Ltd, Written by Max Germanos and Dr. Judith Pugh
2021 Book, ‘Still Life’ written by Amber Creswell Bell, Thames & Hudson, 2021
2020 Interview with Richard Morecroft – ‘Artist Exhibition Series’ -YouTube.
2019 Art Collector Magazine, ‘Debutantes: Peta Minnici’, written by Victoria, Hynes, January 2019

COLLECTIONS
The Macquarie Bank Art Collection
Presbyterian Ladies College – Adelaide Perry Gallery Art Collection
Kedumba Trust Collection of Australian Drawings
National Art School Collection
Private collections in Australia 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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