Peter Joachim Hughes

Peter (Gundagarra) feels his art practice evolved from growing up inspired by his father’s stories in a rural bush setting where art materials came directly from his environment. Using charcoal sticks from around his Dad’s “billy tea” fire, coloured clays and shales from eroding hilltops, paper carefully removed from large paperbark trees which lined the creek beds, along with fallen timbers and creek bed stone, all fed Peter’s appetite for materials to create his artworks. During the past forty five years Peter has expanded his knowledge through various workshops and working with other artists, always trying various mediums and techniques using natural materials. To Peter his artwork has a purpose, a journey of possibilities governed by balance between his identity and his sense of belonging to his country. Peter continues to enjoy living and creating art in a bushland home at the foot of Mt Mellum in the Glasshouse Mountains, Queensland.