ANDREW HOPGOOD & GRAEME PEEBLES
BENEATH THE BLUE 2 Artists, 1 Sea
Beneath the Blue 2 Artists, 1 Sea Paintings, Prints & Sculpture by Andrew Hopgood & Graeme Peebles October 1 - 25, 2026 Salt Contemporary 33-35 Hesse Street Queenscliff
Front: Andrew Hopgood, Stairway to Heaven (detail), 2026, oil on linen, 46x89cm Left: Graeme Peebles, Underwater 2 (detail), 2026, mezzotint, 73x59cm
ANDREW HOPGOOD “I try to create a narrative in my work, where the line between reality and fantasy is a little blurred. The idea that endangered species can adapt, survive and find a way forward in an ever-changing world. At the heart of it all is the connection between humans and nature, and how much we depend on each other. I hope my paintings can draw attention to the challenges wildlife faces, but also encourage people to care a little more about the natural world and the part we all play in protecting it.” Andrew Hopgood, an Australian artist based in Melbourne, was born in Berwick and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design from Swinburne University in 1986. After spending two years traveling across Australia and Southeast Asia, he spent another two years working as an illustrator for a design studio in Cheltenham. In 1990, Hopgood transitioned into freelancing, providing illustrations for publishers, advertising agencies, Australia Post, and design studios. In 2019, he began exploring oil painting and sculpture, working with timber and found objects. His artistic journey culminated in 2022 with a sell-out solo exhibition, SeaStories, in Melbourne.
Andrew Hopgood, Riders on the storm, 2024, oil on canvas, 93x93cm | $7,800
Down to the Coast, 2025, acrylic on oil canvas, 122x183cm | $18,000 Andrew Hopgood, Mistical, 2026, on aluminium panel, 93x73cm | $6,500
Down to theHopgood, Coast, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 122x183cm | $18,000 Andrew Arctic Squadron, 2024, oil on linen, 64x94cm | $6,500
Left: Andrew Hopgood, Catch 22, 2023, oil on linen, 94x64cm | $6,500 Right: Andrew Hopgood, Deep Sleep, 2026, oil on linen, 105x54cm | $5,800
Down Andrew to theHopgood, Coast, 2025, Turning acrylicTides, on canvas, 2026, oil 122x183cm on canvas, | $18,000 63x83cm | $5,400
Left: Andrew Hopgood, Emperor Chronos, 2026, oil on linen, 79x64cm | $5,200 Right: Andrew Hopgood, Convergence, 2026, oil on linen, 76x62cm | $5,200
Andrew Hopgood, Stairway to Heaven, 2026, oil on canvas, 46x89cm | $4,900
Left: Andrew Hopgood, The 3 Bears, 2024, oil on linen, 64x64cm | $4,900 Down Right:toAndrew the Coast, Hopgood, 2025, acrylic Arcticon Circle, canvas, 2026, 122x183cm oil on linen, | $18,000 64x64cm | $4,900
Left: Andrew Hopgood, Wave Jumper, 2024, oil on linen, 64x54cm | $4,600 Right: Andrew Hopgood, Life finds a way, 2026, oil on board, 53x53cm | $4,200
Andrew Hopgood, Wave Jumper, 2024, oil on linen, 64x54cm | $4,600 Left: Andrew Hopgood, Adele penguin feeding chick, 2026, timber, metal wheels, 62x45x25cm | $3,500 Right: Andrew Adele penguin, 2026, timber, metal wheels, 61x25cm | $2,800 Down to the Hopgood, Coast, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 122x183cm | $18,000
GRAEME PEEBLES Having lived in Queenscliff for 40 years, my prints have been increasingly concerned with environmental issues, particularly plastic pollution. They are based on the idea that the oceans will eventually be filled with discarded plastic fish. Over the last few years I have taken up painting again. There are two streams of work. The concept of the shell pictures are based on the discovery that pre historic cave painters used shells to hold pigments when working. The figures in the images are from the cave of swimmers in the Lybian desert, made renown in the film The English Patient.
Graeme Peebles, Underwater 6, 2026, mezzotint, 89x70cm | $3,000
Down to Graeme the Coast, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 122x183cm | $18,000 Peebles, Cowfish, 2024, mezzotint, 73x85cm | $2,900
Graeme Peebles, Plastic Metastasis, 2023, lithograph, 71x83cm | $2,900
Graeme Peebles, Underwater 2, 2023, mezzotint, 73x59cm | $2,500
Down Graeme to the Coast, Peebles, 2025, Underwater acrylic on canvas, 3, 2023,122x183cm mezzotint, |58x71cm $18,000 | $2,100
Left: Graeme Peebles, Underwater 1, 2023, mezzotint, 59x48cm | $1,200 Down Right: to Graeme the Coast, Peebles, 2025, acrylic Underwater on canvas, 5, 2023, 122x183cm mezzotint, | $18,000 58x41cm | $1,100
Left: Graeme Peebles, Plastic Graveyard, 2024, mezzotint, 35x44cm | $950 DownRight: to theGraeme Coast, 2025, Peebles, acrylic Theon Deep, canvas, 2024, 122x183cm mezzotint, | $18,000 44x35cm | $950
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1. Graeme Peebles, Homage to the Cave of Swimmers, 2026, oil on linen, 122x122cm | $7,500 2. Graeme Peebles, Lybian Swimmers 1, 2026, oil on linen, 61x61cm | $2,200 3. Graeme Peebles, Lybian Swimmers 2026, oil on2025, linen,acrylic 61x61cm | $2,200168x182cm | $19,800 When Time2,Stands Still, on canvas,
Graeme Peebles Selected CV Born 1955, Melbourne, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 2019 2018 2017 2012 2010
Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Underwater’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘A Survey of Mezzotints 1979-2019’ Queenscliff gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, VIC, ‘From Velvety Depths’ The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Remember’ The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC 2007 Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Jellyfish’ Townsville Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, QLD, ‘Recent prints’ 2004-05 QUT Art Museum, Brisbane; Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC; Warrnambool Regional Art Gallery, Warrnambool, VIC; Geelong Regional Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC; Gold Coast Regional Art Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD; Townsville Regional Art Gallery, Townsville, QLD, ‘Out of the Shadows’ 2003 Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘The Incompleat Angler’
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2026 2025 2024 2019
Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Australian Galleries Celebrates 70 Years: 1956 – 2026 Group Exhibition’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Assemblage’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Mondo’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘papermade’ 2016 Queenscliff Gallery and Workshop, Queenscliff, VIC, ‘Primavera’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Life: Limited edition etchings, lithographs and linocuts’ 2015 Dubbo Regional Gallery, Dubbo, NSW, ‘Beastarium’ Geelong Gallery, Geelong, VIC, ‘Geelong acquisitive print awards’ 2014 Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan, ‘International Print Exhibition, Australia and Japan’ Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘one of each’ 2012-13 Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Works from the Stock Rooms’ 2012 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula, VIC, National Works on Paper Prize 2011 Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Nature of the Mark’ Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS, ‘Burnie Print Prize’ (Winner) Montsalvat, Eltham, VIC, ‘Rick Amor Print Prize’ 2010 Australian Galleries, Melbourne, ‘Artists’ Prints made with Integrity I’
AWARDS 2015 2014 2012 2011 2008 1996 1989 1987 1983
The Art Vault, Mildura, VIC, The Mildura BMW Australian Print Triennial Prize, Winner King River Brewing, King River, VIC, King Valley Art Show, Winner King River Brewing, King River, VIC, King Valley Art Show, Winner Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, TAS, Burnie Print Prize, Winner Redcliffe City Art Gallery, Moreton Bay Region Art Award, Winner Montsalvat, Melbourne, The Nillumbik Art Prize, Winner Gold Coast City Gallery, Gold Coast, QLD, Gold Coast City Art Prize, Winner Ipswich City Council Art Gallery, Ipswich, QLD, Aberdare Art Prize, Winner Box Hill Acquisitive Prize, VIC, Winner Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC, Henri Worland Print Award, Winner
COLLECTIONS Academic Institutions: Adelaide College of the Arts, Adelaide; RMIT, Melbourne; Footscray College, Melbourne; CAE, Melbourne; University of Melbourne, Melbourne; Monash University, Melbourne; La Trobe University, Melbourne; Deakin University, Geelong, VIC; Griffith University, Brisbane; Queensland University, Brisbane; University of Southern Queensland, Brisbane Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth Artbank, Sydney Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, VIC Banyule City Council, Melbourne Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC Brisbane Town Hall, Brisbane Cannon Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine, VIC City of Whitehorse, Melbourne Commune Di Barberino, Italy Department of Foreign Affairs, Melbourne Ekaterina Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia Federal Courts, Melbourne and Hobart Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, VIC Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, VIC Guanlan Print Society, Guanlan, China High Court, Canberra LaTrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC Manly Art Gallery, Sydney Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington, VIC Museo Di Arte Moderna, Fondazione Pagani, Castellanza, Italy National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Down to the Coast, 2025, acrylic on canvas, 122x183cm | $18,000
Andrew Hopgood Selected CV SOLO EXHIBITIONS QUALIFICATIONS 1986 1990 - present
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design, Swinburne University Freelance illustrator
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2024 2022
‘Changing Tides’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff Victoria ‘Sea Stories’, Tacit Gallery, Collingwood Victoria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2026 ‘Imagine’, Nannygoat Gallery, Petaluma, California, USA ‘Beneath the Blue’, Salt Contemporary, Queenscliff, Victoria 2025 ‘Reverie’, Haven Gallery, Long Island, New York, USA ‘Wildcard’, Nannygoat Gallery, Petaluma, California, USA 2023 ‘Small works’, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick Victoria ‘Daydream’, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick Victoria ‘Antipodes’, Beinart Gallery, Brunswick Victoria 2022 ‘Home’, Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff Victoria SHORTLISTED PRIZES 2024 Finalist, Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2021 Finalist, Highly Commended, Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize, Mornington, Victoria
Beneath the Blue 2 Artists, 1 Sea Paintings, Prints & Sculpture by Andrew Hopgood & Graeme Peebles October 1 - 25, 2026
Salt Contemporary info@salt-art.com.au +61 3 5258 3988 +61 439 353 624 salt-art.com.au 33-35 Hesse St, Queenscliff, VIC, 3225