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Selected Bibliography
* essays and interviews
Andrew Stephens Built Form; an orientation Tolarno Galleries 2024
Kirsty Grant SUPERsystems Catalogue essay for Tarrawarra Museum of Art 2024
Andrew Stephens The Systems that connect us with Dana Harris and Peter Atkins May 2 2024
Paul Best Hot Seats Australian Financial Review 22-24 March 2024
Liz Hobday Pioneering works by Clement Meadmore reveal Australia's design DNA March 23 2024 Australian Associated Press
Vault Magazine Artefact - Peter Atkins and Dana Harris Vault Magazine Issue 46 2024
Arts Review Tarrawarra Museum of Art to present new works by leading Contemporary artists March 13 2024
Art Collector feature. The Test of Time Issue Jan - Feb 2022
Dr Peter Hill* VAULT magazine - feature article August-October 2019
Dr Peter Hill* Art Collector interview for the 2016 edition of SPRING1883. pp.8-9
Kirsty Grant* Under Construction - Chaos and Order Catalougue essay for SCAPE8: New Intimacies, Christchurch, New Zealand 2015
Laura Thomson* A conversation with Peter Atkins, OCULAR 2015
Charlie Gates New Christchurch sculpture turns roadwork signs into art The Press, Christchurch Sept 19, 2015
Alex Baker * Two Takes on the Pop Object Catalogue essay for Polaroid Project 2014
Jane O'Neill * Catalogue essay for SILENCE Greenaway Art Gallery, 2014
Gene Sherman Collective Identity(ies) - This Is That Time September, 2013
Jane O'Neill * Play Money catalogue essay August, 2013
Andrew Frost JAZZ | The Art Life June 28th, 2013
Emma Mayall * Peter Atkins - 101 Contemporary Australian Artists Catalogue essay pp.24-25 National Gallery of Victoria Publication, 2012
Jake Walker* Interview with Peter Atkins by Jake Walker - Art Studio Visit Blog 2012
Robyn Stuart Das Platforms Emerging and Contemporary Art, June, 2012.
The Arts The Age Chairman Of The Board, May 30th, 2012 pp.13
Ashley Crawford * Artist Profile Issue 19, 2012 pp 80 - 85
Francis E. Parker * Catalogue essay for 'The Monopoly Project' Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, 2012.
Studio Visit Art Guide Australia September/October 2011pp.44-45
Stephen Banham Characters - Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography. Thames and Hudson 2011 pp.242 - 243
What's On Contemporary Encounters NGV Magazine Nov - Dec 2010
Ashley Crawford * Readymade Abstraction Australian Art Collector Oct-Dec 2009 pp.170-175
Alex Baker * Peter Atkins - Clemenger Contemporary Art Award catalogue essay,September 2009
Meryl Ryan The Museum Effect - catalogue essay 2009
Wendy Walker * New Work - Interview Art World Issue #1 Feb/Mar 08 pp.94-99
Annemarie Kiely Readymade Vogue Living Jan/Feb 2008 pp.76
Ray Edgar * The Collector Monument issue 77, 2007, pp.44-47
Wendy Walker * The Collections of Peter Atkins and Dana Harris, Art & Australia, vol. 44, no. 3, autumn 2007,
Gillian Serisier Acquisitions by the public galleries an important guide to “what to buy”’, Australian Art Market Report no.22, summer 2006–07, pp. 20–22
Celia Lendi Salon, Australian Art Collector, issue 38, October – December 2006, p. 343
Charles Green Critics Picks, Artforum, 17 May 2006
Natalie King * Duration and Memory Catalogue essay for 'Precious Things' Sherman Galleries, 4 - 27 May 2006
Laura Murray Cree Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986–2006, Craftsman House, Melbourne, 2006
Leeta Keens * Street stories, Belle, August–September 2005, pp. 90–93
Deirdre Macken Unfinished Business, Australian Financial Review Magazine,December 2005, pp.16–24
William Wright * Perceptual Identity catalogue essay, ‘Peter Atkins Paintings 2000-2005’ Bett Gallery, Hobart
Wendy Walker * The World Around Me Catalogue essay The World Around Me Sherman Galleries Sydney 6 - 29 May, 2004
Deborah Hart Peter Atkins: United States Journal, Developing a Collection: Acquisitions 2001–2004, Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2004
The Atkins Diet The Art Life, May 11th 2004
The Atkins Effect Art, The Reader, no. 48, 21 May 2004, p. 33
Wendy Walker * Peter Atkins Essay for ARCO catalogue. Madrid Art Fair, 2003
Andrew Frost Peter Atkins, Australian Art Collector, issue 28, April–June 2003, p. 184
Max McLean * Paper Forms, Paper form, catalogue essay, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, November 2003
Jill Stowell Small Curios At Large Newcastle Morning Herald 11.10.2003
Daniel Thomas * Tender Buttons, catalogue essay, Peter Atkins 1990-2003, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery,2003
Maria Bilske ‘Most collectible artists’, Australian Art Collector, issue 23, January 2003
Paco Barragan * El arte que viene – The art to come, Subastas, 2002, pp. 32–3
Elena Taylor Australian Art in the National Gallery of Australia, Thames and Hudson, Melbourne, 2002, p. 424
Deborah Hart * Peter Atkins: Finding Beauty in the Everyday, Art & Australia (cover image), vol. 39, no. 4, winter 2002, pp.
Annette Larkin Contemporary Art, Australian Art Market Report, p. 10, issue 4, winter 2002
Laura Murray Cree Awesome! Australian Art for Contemporary Kids, Craftsman House, Sydney, 2002
Peter Timms The Shape of Air (Flat), catalogue essay, Bett Gallery, Hobart, 2002
Donald Williams * In Our Own Image – the Story of Australian Art, McGraw Hill, Sydney, 2002
Max McLean * Handmade, catalogue essay, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, August 2001
Nick Waterlow A century of collecting 1901–2001, catalogue essay, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFAUniversity of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 March – 28 April 2001
Elena Taylor * Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, catalogue essay, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 15 July – 22 October 2000
S. Kronenberg * Documenting aesthetic responses, Accumulation, catalogue essay, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, February 2000
Timothy Morrell Art and the Everyday, catalogue essay, Exploring Culture and Community for the 21c Global Arts Link, Ipswich, Queensland,1999
Margaret Moore * Soft Edge, catalogue essay, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney,1998
Bruce James Galleries: Inspired by the Everyday, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May 1998
Timothy Morrell Art Objects, catalogue essay, Urban Artefacts, Ipswich Regional Gallery, Queensland,1997
Anna Johnson ‘Art’s new wave’, Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 April 1997
Felicity Fenner * Catalouge essay ‘New Work’ Sherman Gallery 1996
Donald Williams * Art Now: Contemporary Art Post-1970, book 2, McGraw Hill, Sydney,1996
Akihiko Takami Compounding Australian Identity (review of Systems End), Bijutsu-Techo, August 1996
Tamaki Hara Probe into the present contemporary art in the southern hemisphere, Maihichi Gravure- Amuse , no. 14, 24 July 1996
Chris Ashton Australian Contemporary Art, QANTAS Spirit, March–April 1996
Peter Ward State of the arts. What’s hot in 1996, Weekend Magazine, Australian,6–7 January 1996
Art Monthly (cover image), Dec–Feb 1995
Elwyn Lynn Double Vision, Australian, 17 February 1995
Terry Ingram What to watch in 1995, Australian Financial Review, 29 December 1994
Michele Helmrich VIII Indian Triennale – Peter Atkins, Art & Text, vol. 48, 1994
Anjali Sircar A comment on superficial realities?, The Hindu, 13 March 1994
K. I. Kaul A subtle and meaningful fare, Statesman, 8 March 1994
Carmel Dwyer A journey built on obsession, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 February 1994
Suneet Chopra Confronting the global village, Hindustan Times, 29 January 1994
Annette Larkin * Peter Atkins ‘World Journal, exhibition catalogue,VIII Triennale-India 1994,
& Peter Timms A.E.T.A.,Melbourne,1993. Indian Triennale related material
Michael Hutak Young at Art: The New Painters, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 January 1994 Oz Arts January 1994
Robert Rooney Exploiters of Exotica, Weekend Australian, 21–22 August 1993
Chris Heathcote Keeping the faith in the miraculous power of a prize, The Age, 13 August 1993
Daniel Thomas Australia Made by Art, Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, catalogue,Melbourne,1992
Peter Timms Painting by Numbers – Melbourne Report, Art & Australia, vol. 29, no. 4, winter pp.429-433,1992
Ken Shepherd Il sud del mondo/The other side of the world, exhibition catalogue, Masala, Italy, 1991
Jonathan Turner * Who are the artists to watch, Artnews, New York City, April 1991
Jo Saurin Reward of sensual pleasure, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 March 1991
Elwyn Lynn Intimacy and Nature, Weekend Australian, 18 June 1989
Elwyn Lynn The individual in perspective, Weekend Australian, 10–11 June 1989
Ken Shepherd The Way Of The Spirit In Paint, Australian Perspecta 1989, catalogue, A.G.N.S.W, Sydney, 1989
Elaine Merkus Here and There, exhibition catalogue, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1987
Selected wirtings by the artist
Influences and Parallels - Clement Meadmore
The Variations - Michael Hirst
The Variation (cont.) - Michael Hirst
Beautiful Corners - Leonard Brown
Songlines - Alexander Karinsky
Orzel - Jan Van Schaik
No Locomotives - A talk given by the artist at the State Library of Victoria on the early sculptural practice on Clement Meadmore