Collection
Graeme Peebles
(Australia 22 Jan 1955– )
- Title
- They mute horses don't they?
- Year
- 1974
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour mezzotint on ivory wove paper
- Edition
- 21/60
- Dimensions
-
20.2 x 58.5cm platemark; 42.7 x 68.6cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Graeme Peebles 79".
- Credit
- Gift of Graham Blondel 2011. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
- Accession number
- 288.2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Peebles was born in Melbourne and studied printmaking at RMIT 1973-75, with further studies in Italy and England in 1976-77, specifically on the mezzotint. He has exhibited prints and has taught printmaking in Melbourne since 1977. He is Australia's foremost practitioner of mezzotint, the first of which he made in 1973. His early works are principally still life, the object drawn directly on to the plate; often there are metaphorical links; for example he often uses fruit whose shapes lend themselves to innuendo.
