Pete Wheeler

Let Me Remember My Song In The Night

2021

Oil and pigment on canvas

2000mm (H) x 1700mm (W)

Framed

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Artist Statement

The idea we live our lives through a snippet of compiled memories. This painting is based of two photos taken at two different locations in Germany, and executed in my Dunedin studio.

About the Artist

Pete Wheeler

I have never shied away from the big existential issues - death, politics, religion - and indeed, I brazenly wrestle them onto the canvas. The most dramatic or kitschiest imagery takes a back seat to getting pigment down on a surface in a diversity of techniques. I am a painter's painter, whose trajectory has taken me from the gothic, slacker, grunge South Island art scene to Berlin, where I drank deeply from echoes of German post-war, neo-expressionist painting.
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