Peter Corlett

Peter Corlett OAM was born in Melbourne in 1944. He studied at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, between 1961 and 1964. His career as a sculptor began with a number of large abstract, amorphous forms. In the mid-1970s his work shifted from abstract and only vaguely figurative, to distinctively naturalistic figuration. Around this time, he began producing life-sized painted resin and fibreglass human figures which seem inspired by ordinary daily life. Corlett’s work is firmly grounded in a humanist tradition of sculpture; at the heart of his practice is the desire to express of the emotional and psychological life within his subject.

Corlett has completed memorial work for the Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Australian Memorial Park, Fromelles, France; the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne; Australian Department of Veterans’ Affairs, Bullecourt, France; the Lemnos Gallipoli Commemorative Committee, Albert Park, Victoria and the Australian Soldier Park, Beersheba, Israel.