biography

BORN

1977 Melbourne, Victoria



EDUCATION

1996-8 Bachelor of Fine Art (painting), Monash University.

1999-2000 Batchelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash University.

2001 Graduate Diploma in education, Melbourne University.



SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 This May Hurt, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

2009 Michael Peck 2009, Metro Gallery, Melbourne

2008 Michael Peck 2008, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne.

2006 Somewhere Culture, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne.

2002 Influence, Gallery 101, Melbourne.

2000 Subtle Shadings of an inherited way of life, Gallery 101, Melbourne.



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 January – February, Blender Artists Group show, Off the Kerb Gallery, Melbourne. 

2009 Line, Drawing Group show, Mailbox Exhibition Space, Melbourne. 

2009 May – June, Selected artists, Dickerson Gallery, Sydney

2008 Small gems, Metro Gallery, Melbourne.

2007 Small gems, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne.

2000 Square, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Melbourne.

2000 Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Royal Exhibition Building Carlton

1999 Panorama, Six emerging Melbourne artists, Gallery 101, Melbourne.

1999, Review- Curators choice, gallery 101, Melbourne.

1998 Impact- art for a world Identity, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne.

1998 Where are we now, Gallery 5, Melbourne.



AWARDS

2005 Finalist for Metro 5 Award.

2002 Finalist for City of Hobart Art Prize.

1998 Winner National Gallery of Victoria Trustees award.

1999, 1998, 1997, 1996- Shortlisted for Lucato Prize, Monash University.  

1996 Awarded most prominent first year painter, Monash University.



COMMISSIONS

2003 Goldman & Sachs, London.

2002- 20010 Private commissions in London, New York, Melbourne and Sydney.



COLLECTIONS

Monash University

Melbourne Publishing Company

Victoria Racing Club, Flemington

Private collections in Australia, London, New York and Hong Kong.



PUBLICATIONS 

2010 Newspaper Article- Matthew Clayfield,  The Plight of Innocents abroad, The Australian, April 13th  2010.

2010 Artwork featured on Cover of Trouble Magazine, May 2010.

2010 Interview- Rita Dimasi, Arts Hub. 13th May,2010

2009 Sunday Arts feature, ABC TV. 31st May 2009.

2009 Artwork featured, Art and Australia, Online Gallery. 

2009 Artwork featured in NGV Gallery Magazine.

2009 Feature, Australian Financial review.

2009 Interview- Art in the real world. http://intherealartworld.blogspot.com

2009 Article, MX Newspaper, 12th may.

2008 Radio interview- ABC 774 The conversation hour. 

2008 William Jackson, On venturing to find a fit, Diamond Valley Leader, 18th June.

2008 Artwork featured in NGV Gallery magazine

2006 Jeff Makin, Critics Choice, The Herald Sun, 21 June, 2006.

2005 Full page Artwork featured on page 3, The Age, 10 February, 2005.

2002, Radio Interview, RRR.

2002, Holly Evans, Domain Diary, The Age, 10 April, p 2.

2002, Alyce Zydower, Investing in Art, The Age, 22 April, pg 14. 

2000 Melbourne Art Fair 2000, Exhibition Catalogue, pp64-5

2000 Artwork pictured in The Age, Entertainment Guide, 31 March.

2000 Jeff Makin, Critics Choice, The Herald Sun, 10 April, p 103.

2000 Robert Nelson, There’s an art to feelings of dislocation, The Age, Today Review, 12 April, p7.



RESIDENCIES

2009-2010  Blender Studios Residency, Melbourne.