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Born in Adelaide in 1948, Peter Griffen has been painting for over forty years. He lives and works in his warehouse studio in the inner west of Sydney and travels throughout Australia and overseas exhibiting and teaching.

He has had over fifty solo exhibitions in Australia, five exhibitions in London, three in Paris, two in St Tropez, one in Lyon and one in New Zealand. His participation in group exhibitions is also widespread; art fairs in Canada, UK, Belgium, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney, he has been a finalist in the Blake, Sulman, Dobell, Fleurieu, Eutick, Alice, Faber-Castell, Fishers Ghost, Biennale Internationale du Pastel (France) and has been invited to exhibit in the Tattersalls Landscape Exhibition and Messagers de la Terre (France). This year he won the Muswellbrook aquisitive prize for works on paper.

The Macquarie University and Qantas have large collections of his work and Griffen’s work is in numerous other public and private collections world wide. His commissions are many and include Public Art for Keaman Constructions in Sydney

Peter has been teaching workshops for fourteen years throughout Australia, and in New Zealand, Italy, UK and USA.