Joan Peters

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Biography

Joan Peters’ creative journey continues to evolve, marked most recently by her achievement as a finalist in the prestigious Lester Prize 2025. Joan’s inaugural solo exhibition in 2023 drew upon her time in Iceland, reflecting deeply on her then-new reality of living as a non-hearing person. Here & There, Somewhere her 2025 exhibition, Joan paints purely from memory to create a timeless record of a way of seeing.

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Here & There, Somewhere
An exhibition that reflects on Joan Peters work as a form of resilience through creativity. Peters draws upon her subconscious and memory.

2023
Iceland Ísland
Showcasing work Joan Peters created during her experience at NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, a small fishing town in northwest Iceland where she lived for two months during its summer season.

Awards

2025
Drop-ins with Marjorie
Lester Prize for Portraiture finalist.

Joan Peters
Painting

Artist Statement

What images would my subconscious bring up if I discarded all visual referencing? I am not so much seeking an abstraction, more an image that my memory conjures up of a place that I have travelled to, sat by or listened in. Often a colour on the canvas will steer me to another memory and the landscape would change as I paint.