The current Michael Peck exhibition This May Hurt at the Metro 5 Gallery hails Peck as one of Australia’s leading contemporary painters. Metro 5, in fact, think so highly of him they have even put him on retainer – so now at the age of thirtysomething Peck doesn’t have to do anything more except paint. And that for the father of three can only be a joyous place to be in life.
According to his blog Michael Peck’s artistic practice is concerned with the “sensation of disorientation and dislocation that is often felt within the post modern world”, but after meeting him at his Blender Studios space, I am suspicious that this may have been written by a publicist, because Michael Peck and his work come across as anything but dislocated. (The Blender Studios by the way are known to be the intellectual heart of the early Melbourne street movement thanks to founder Adrian Doyle). And Peck in fact is immensely approachable, and prepared to talk about his work in an impressively inclusive way.
