Peter Ranyard is a formally trained commercial photographer and fine artist who has maintained a professional arts practice for more than 25 years. He has had extensive experience collaborating on projects in the fine art, corporate, institutional and private sectors in Australia and overseas and has been involved in numerous exhibitions.
Peter has had a solo exhibition Coast at CIT in 2012, a two-person exhibition Material Substance and the Lightness of Touch with the ceramicist Sarit Cohen at Form Gallery in 2013, Beneath the Surface at M16 Artspace in 2014 with water colourist Tiff Brown and the photographer/printmaker/painter Peter Rohen, Impermanence at the Firestation Gallery (Armadale Melbourne) in August 2015, and the solo exhibition River, at the Huw Davies Gallery at PhotoAccess in September 2016. Peter exhibited in the group show Memoria Platea at M16 Artspace in November/December 2016. In 2017 he exhibited at Lighthouse Architecture as part of the the Design Canberra Festival. In 2018 he was a member of the Heroes exhibition at PhotoAccess, the Canon Roadshow at the National Portrait Gallery of Australia and the Open Studios program as part of the Design Canberra Festival. In 2019 Peter undertook the Joya: AiR artist residency program in Granada Spain. in 2021 Peter was part of the photography exhibition Plein Air High Plain with the artists Mac Nichols and Mark Mohell at M16 Art Space.
Peter has undertaken numerous fine art and commercial commissions and has previously been selected to be included in the Communication Arts Photography Annual.
Photographic Achievements
2021 Plein Air High Plain M16 Art Space November
2021 CAPO art auction-donated Life Saving Hut
2019 Canberra Design Festival Open Studio November
2019 Joya: AiR artist residency program Spain March-April
2018 Canberra Design Festival Open Studio November
2018 Canon Roadshow Exhibition National Portrait Gallery August
2018 Heroes Exhibition PhotoAccess Fundraiser PhotoAccess March
2017 Canberra Design Festival-Lighthouse Architecture and Science Open studio November
Memoria Platea group exhibition M16 Artspace Canberra November 2016
2016 River solo exhibition Huw Davies Gallery PhotoAccess Canberra September – Reviewed Canberra Times September 20th September 2016
2015 Impermanence group exhibition Firestation Gallery Melbourne
2015 CAPO art fundraiser auction – donated “Lost Angel”
2014 Beneath the Surface group exhibition M16 Art Space
Reviewed Canberra Times 28th March 2014 Artists Find Beauty in Imperfection
2013 Material Substance and the Lightness of Touch exhibition Form Gallery
Interviewed 2XX radio 14th August 2013, Canberra Times Review Duo Have Form 19th August 2013
2012 Coast solo exhibition Canberra Institute of Technology Reid
Anon 17-32 group exhibition Canberra Institute of Technology 2011
Anon 1-16 group exhibition Canberra Institute of Technology 2010
Invited to exhibit at ANCA Gallery in 2008 as part of the Vivid National Festival of Photography
Vivid National Festival of Photography College Representative Committee 2008
CIT Bachelor of Photography Review College Representative and Re-Accreditation 2008
CAPO art fundraiser auction 2008
Ozymandias Solo exhibition Art Espresso 2007
Passage Solo exhibition ANCA Gallery 2006 – Reviewed Canberra Times June 16th 2006
ACT Photography Teachers Group show ANU School of Art Photomedia Gallery 2005
Group Exhibition Canberra Institute of Technology 2004
Poronui Ranch Website and Print images (NZ)
Poronui – permanent fine art collection Poronui Ranch (NZ) 2003-2018
Photographs for Environment Australia Annual Report and Website
Published in Communication Arts Design Annual (USA) 2002
Photograph used for Department of Finance gifts and Christmas Cards 2002
Visions exhibition Contemporary Art Space Manuka 2002
Held in private collections USA, NZ, Australia
Qualifications
Bachelor of Photography, 1997 – Canberra Institute of Technology
Awarded Best Portfolio Prize Graduating Student’s Exhibition 1996 1997
Bachelor of Education, 1992 – University of Canberra
