Peter Benjamin Graham - Peter's Final Years

Peter's Final Years

  • 1979 - 1984 Peter Graham experimented with esoteric printing techniques including collotype, and a new form of screenless lithography using a pre-sensitised continuous tone aluminium plate.
  • 1981 - 1983 Peter Graham worked on series of drawings called Paradise Destroyed, and contributing to several anti-nuclear exhibitions.
  • 1983 - Peter Graham returned to his Central Australian subject matter with large series of watercolours and oils entitled The Painted Land. Completed at this time a memoir of his stay in Alice Springs, called 'Journal of a Small Journey'. (Taped version in Archives at National Library of Australia, collected by Barbara Blackman
  • 1984 - 1985 Peter Graham painted Tragic Landscape series.

Peter Graham returned to development of Notation Painting in 1986 in collaboration with his son, Philip Mitchell Graham. Arranged with Jan Martin for a retrospective exhibition to be held at her gallery in Lyttleton Street, Castlemaine, Victoria.

Peter Graham Admitted to Hospital where he was diagnosed with Cancer of the oesophagus December 1986 .

Peter Graham died 15 April 1987 at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne.

A memorial exhibition for Peter Graham opened at the Lyttleton Gallery, Castlemaine in central Victoria on 6 June 1987, two days after what would have been his 62nd birthday.

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