Education
Stichbury graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1997.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Peter Stichbury
Edit ProfileCareer
Stichbury is primarily a painter but his body of work also spans the mediums of drawing, watercolour, sculpture and sound based work. Stichbury is most renowned for his intricate yet flat portraits of models and modern beauties sourced from contemporary media images. Combines startlingly attractive and awkwardly ugly
Beauty, models and media images
Non-conventional beauty: misfits, outsiders and intellectuals
Haute couture catwalk culture
Pared down 1950"s aesthetic
Modern psychology and sociology, alien conspiracy theory, popular culture and historical painters including Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Lucian Freud.
English model Lily Donaldson is a favourite subject.
