2009 Exhibition: New Paintings | Peter O'Doherty

  • Peter O'Doherty, Malabar Fibro , 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, Malabar Front Door, 2008
  • Peter O'Doherty, Malabar Patio, 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, South Coast Deco, 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, South Coast Semis, 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, Pandanus Trees, Gold Coast, 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, 101, 2008
  • Peter O'Doherty, Circles , 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, Empty Yard Malabar, 2009
  • Peter O'Doherty, Green Fibro, Lithgow , 2009

2009 Exhibition: New Paintings
5 - 30 May 2009

King Street Gallery (on William) is proud to present an exhibition of New Paintings by Peter O’Doherty. This exhibition is O’Doherty’s first major solo exhibition with the gallery and will showcase his vibrant, individualistic paintings produced over the past 18 months.

The exhibition will showcase the quirky, familiar and nostalgic images from O’Dohertys childhood for which he is best known. Images from a time, in the ’50s and ’60s, when fibro homes, patios, wrought iron and the beach were the stuff of dreams and the dream of owning your own home was a reality. Through his earliest experiences growing up in New Zealand and on the northern beaches of Sydney, he has captured the essence of that time and thrown forward to today images of fibro beach houses and blocks of flats locked in time, providing us with a very personal, retro reality.

Few of us have grown up oblivious to these images and places. After more than 20 solo exhibitions and numerous awards and group shows, O’Doherty gives us a very refined vision - something from the past to enjoy into the future.