Peter Graham: ‘Grotto’ 

Peter Graham: ‘Grotto’  2008.

Multi colour photo-polymer relief print, edition of six, 23 x 15.5cm (framed).

website: petergraham.net
instagram: @petergraham_artist

“My work describes the processes through which images come into being, unearthed from the dry loam of the head.

To me, the head is a thinking rock, a magic stone. Though it may weep and mourn, abandoned by everything it imagines, it is also a radiant conductor—from inanimate matter, animated forms are spirited. The art of this extraction is laborious, so that images may be borne up like sweat on the brow.

Images are spells, sparking from our heads like fire from stone, igniting darkness so that we may see. My works are created through intense personal observation and developed through the invention of stories and mythologies.

I work across a range of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture.”