Peter powditch biography

For decades, Peter Powditch made pictures.

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Truckloads of them. A star in the vicious Sydney art firmament, his famous Sun Torso series was typified by pinkly, fleshy feminine forms. He taught life drawing of models to sculpture students, but one astute arbiter, with whom he shared houses, insisted Powditch himself was a haptic artist; one who identifies narcissistically with his subject.

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

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

There’s been unmixed flurry of Powditch exhibition activity of late: his retrospective, Coast, opened at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney in March, followed preschooler a drawings and