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Peter Filmer

Award Winning Artist
Winner of the Australian Tactile Art Prize
Pete Filmer World Wide      Art Works - The Beauty of Wood
 

 
 
What Are You Looking At?
Rosewood, 2005
120 x 820 mm
 
Carved from a single slab of wood.
 

Bushfire Sunrise

Blakely's Red Gum and acrylic, 2007
2400 x 3200mm
 
Entrant in the Wynne Prize.  Made from wood burnt in the 2003 bushfires. 
Seven free standing pieces.
 

 
Carved Horses
 
Huon Pine ponies standing on a Rosewood slab.
 
 

 

Don't I know you
 
Carved from one piece of wood (Obeche), 1998
 

 
Australia's National Song
Rosewood, 2007
 
Carved for the Waterhouse Prize. 
 

Mother and Child
Poplar, 1998
 
Carved from a single piece of wood.
 
 

 
Resilience
 
Red Gum, 2002
Acquired by the National Museum of Australia.
 
The piece shows the time line of bushfire.  This tree was felled after a bushfire in 2001.  The blackened outside shows that fire, and the two internal rings of black shows the tree survived two previous bushfires. 
 

 
 
Rolled Bowls
 
Single pieces off turned wood rolled into bowls 
 
 

Carving with help
Basil (the horse) faithfully helps Pete with carving projects. 
 
 

 
Lady from the East
 
Red Box, 1997
 

 
Tangled
Carved Wood (Sydney Bluegum) 1998
Made for the Mortabella International Exhibiton in Spain

 
Woodeye 
 
Mortabella International Exhibition in Spain, 1999