Peter Gouldthorpe
{{short description|Australian artist and author (born 1954)}}
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Peter James Gouldthorpe (born 30 July 1954) is an Australian artist and author best known for his children's books.
He lives and works in Hobart, Tasmania with his wife, Jennie, and has two children.
Early life
Gouldthorpe was born in Melbourne, but most of his childhood was spent in the Northern Beaches of Sydney.{{cite book |editor1-last=Scobie |editor1-first=Susan |title=The Dromkeen Book of Australian Children's Illustrators |year=1997 |publisher=Scholastic Australia |isbn=1863886958 |pages=56–57}} After leaving high school, he studied art at East Sydney Technical College (now the National Art School), before moving to Tasmania at the age of nineteen.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thelitcentre.org.au/author/peter-gouldthorpe |title=Author page at The Literature Centre |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317175432/http://thelitcentre.org.au/author/peter-gouldthorpe |archive-date=17 March 2015 |url-status=dead }} Here, he taught at Devonport and Launceston TAFE colleges, and began painting landscapes, holding several solo exhibitions in Devonport at The Little Gallery (now the [http://www.devonportgallery.com/index02.php?id=8 Devonport Regional Gallery]).
Children's books
Gouldthorpe wrote and illustrated his first children's book, Jonah and the Manly Ferry, in 1983.[http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/32533248 National Library of Australia] Since then, he has gone on to illustrate or write/illustrate seventeen picture books and innumerable educational books. His work uses a wide variety of mediums including linocut, scraperboard, watercolour, crayon, coloured pencils, acrylic and oil paints. His books have often been shortlisted for The Children's Book Council of Australia's Children's Book of the Year Awards. In 1994, First Light (written by Gary Crew) was awarded Picture Book of the Year.[http://cbca.org.au/9099.htm The Children's Book Council of Australia, Winners and Shortlists 1990 - 1999] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227201250/http://cbca.org.au/9099.htm |date=27 December 2013 }} He has collaborated with some of Australia's best-loved children's authors, including Paul Jennings, John Marsden and Colin Thiele. He has also introduced a new generation of young readers to the works of great Australian poets CJ Dennis and Ethel Turnerthrough his illustrated versions of their work.
File:Tasman Passage (Peter Gouldthorpe, oil on linen, 2014).jpg
Since 2001, Gouldthorpe has returned to landscape painting, often working en plein air.[http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/05/07/2893797.htm?site=hobart Stateline Tasmania television segment, Stateline Tasmania, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2010] He has held several solo shows at Colville Street Art Gallery.[http://www.colvillegallery.com.au/gallery/petergouldthorpe.php Colville Street Art Gallery Artist Page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140213204523/http://colvillegallery.com.au/gallery/petergouldthorpe.php |date=13 February 2014 }} He has been a seven-time finalist in the Glover Prize, winning the People's Choice Award in 2010 and 2021.[http://www.johnglover.com.au/artists/peter-gouldthorpe Glover Prize: Peter Gouldthorpe]Peter exhibits his work through Handmark Gallery.
Other media
Gouldthorpe's work appears in many other areas, including murals, stamps, advertising, film, television and live performance. Several of his murals, employing the Trompe-l'œil technique, can be seen around the streets and businesses of his home town, Hobart.{{Cite web |url=http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/b4648d89-9314-188c-07ef-15679757185e/1/gouldthorpe_final.zip/petergouldthorpe.htm |title=Artists and Place: Tasmanian Department of Education |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413135823/http://resources.education.tas.gov.au/item/edres/b4648d89-9314-188c-07ef-15679757185e/1/gouldthorpe_final.zip/petergouldthorpe.htm |archive-date=13 April 2014 |url-status=dead }}
Works
= Children's non-fiction =
"The White Mouse" (written and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, 2015) - Children"s Book Councillor Australia - short-listed for Eve Pownall Award, 2015.
Ice, Wind, Rock: Douglas Mawson in the Antarctic (written and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, 2013) - Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award Notable Book 2014
Lyrebird!: a true story (written by Jackie Kerrin, 2012) - Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award Honour Book 2013
No Return: Captain Scott’s Race to the Pole (written and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, 2011)
Queenie: One Elephants Story (written by Corinne Fenton, 2006) - Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award Honour Book 2007
= Children's fiction =
"Our Dog Knows Words" written by Peter and Illustrated by Lucy Gouldthorpe, 2015.
The Dog on the Tuckerbox (written by Corinne Fenton, 2008)
Pannikin and Pinta (written by Colin Thiele, 1999)
Norton’s Hut (written by John Marsden, 1998)
The Lost Diamonds of Killiecrankie (co-created with Gary Crew, 1995)
The Wonder Thing (written by Libby Hathorn, 1993)
First Light (written by Gary Crew, 1993) - Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year 1994
Grandad's Gifts (written by Paul Jennings, 1992) - Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award Shortlisted Book 1993
Hist! (poem by C. J. Dennis, 1991) Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award Honour Book 1992
Sheepdogs (written by Jack Bedson, 1990)
Don’t Get Burnt! (written by Jack Bedson, 1985)
Walking to School (poem by Ethel Turner, 1984)
Jonah and the Manly Ferry (written and illustrated by Peter Gouldthorpe, 1983)
= Trompe l'Oeil =
The Aurora Mural, Denison Lane, South Hobart, Tasmania, 2002[http://www.arts.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/file/0020/26912/Southern_Trail_pdf.pdf Southern Trail: Arts Tasmania street art guide]
Tony Haigh Walk, North Hobart, Tasmania, 2000{{Cite web |url=http://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Arts_and_Culture/Public_Art/North_Hobarts_Treasures |title=Hobart City Council |access-date=23 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140614225727/http://www.hobartcity.com.au/Community/Arts_and_Culture/Public_Art/North_Hobarts_Treasures |archive-date=14 June 2014 |url-status=dead }}
Le Provençal Restaurant, South Hobart, Tasmania 1994
= Stamps =
Creatures of the Night (Australia Post, 1997)
Antarctic Research Ships (Australia Post, 2003)[http://www.antarctic-anare.info/ Australian Antarctic Stamps]
= Advertising =
Murals feature in the award-winning
Awards
Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award Notable Book 2014 for Ice, Wind, Rock: Douglas Mawson in the Antarctic[http://cbca.org.au/Eve-Pownall-Notables-2014.htm Eve Pownall Book of the Year Awards Notables 2014] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410175814/http://cbca.org.au/Eve-Pownall-Notables-2014.htm |date=10 April 2014 }}
Glover Prize Children's Choice 2014 for Tasman Passage
Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award Honour Book 2013 for Lyrebird!: a true story written by Jackie Kerrin[http://cbca.org.au/winners2013.htm Children's Book Council of Australia Winners 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130821044951/http://cbca.org.au/winners2013.htm |date=21 August 2013 }}
Glover Prize People's Choice 2010 for Gondwana Rococo
Children's Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award Honour Book 2007 for Queenie: One Elephants Story written by Corinne Fenton[http://www.walkerbooks.com.au/Books/Queenie-One-Elephants-Story-9781742032153 Queenie: One Elephant's Story on Walker Books]
Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year 1994 for First Light written by Gary Crew
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award Shortlisted Book 1993 for Grandad's Gifts written by Paul Jennings
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award Honour Book 1992 for Hist! poem by C. J. Dennis
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Category:Australian children's writers
Category:Australian children's book illustrators