Peter powditch biography

For decades, Peter Powditch made pictures.

Truckloads of them. A star in the s Sydney art firmament, his famous Sun Torso series was typified by pinkly, fleshy female forms.

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He taught life drawing of models to sculpture students, but one astute critic, with whom he shared houses, insisted Powditch himself was a haptic artist; one who identifies narcissistically with his subject.

“It was my body I was painting, not girls’ bodies,” Powditch, now 75, explains from his home in the hills of the Byron hinterland, on the New South Wales north coast, where he moved with his wife 17 years ago.

“In other words, you feel it in your own body: I’m feeling where the tension is, where the relaxed bit is. A lot of feeling inside the figure is my own.”

There’s been a flurry of Powditch exhibition activity of late: his retrospective, Coast, opened at S.H.

Ervin Gallery in Sydney in March, followed by a drawings and