Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistPeter Wharton CollectionInsight
Description High school students in Port Moresby,Papua New Guinea's capital,celebrating the arrival of Christian missionaries 100 years previously.These people are high school-age youth studying at technical school, typically electronics.engineering,accountancy and business studies. Extremely intelligent young people being educated and trained for leadership roles in the future independent nation............................ They were also being taught traditional dance and music by their elders who have travelled long distances with treasured cultural artefacts - exotic Bird of Paradise feathers, shells and elaborately fabricated drums - to ensure painstaking adherence to age-old craftsmanship in the preparation of this nationally and culturally significant event.
Peter Wharton, Brisbane Australia Member Since March 2008 Artist Statement After a period of service as a Radio Officer in the British Merchant Navy I took a degree in Fine Art in England and taught for ten years in Papua New Guinea secondary boarding schools. My passion is building learning support environments to help young people develop their creative potential.
I spent the final twenty years of my teaching career at one of Australia's leading Art education institutions, the Queensland College of Art at Griffith University. I now enjoy a small following in Japan where traditional draughtsmanship in human figure representation is highly valued, (accompanied, it must be said, by a touching respect and honour for the draughtsman!)