Peter De Lorenzo lives and works in Robertson and Sydney, Australia.

Since the 1970’s he has produced short experimental films using analogue and digital processes, and now works with Painting and digital media. His work in Painting is inspired by notions of musical space and structure, geometry, colour and the materiality of paint.

My work has been inspired by the idea of a series as proposed by Pierre Boulez, and by notions of Musical Space, applying contrapuntal opposites such as: continuity/discontinuity; contrast/harmony; on/off; negative/positive, rough/smooth; tight/loose; colour/no colour; small/large.

For me Structure informs the beginning of a work or a series, and is a constant factor across its production. Process is a continuum, a way forward through the time line of production. In the first body of work the underlying grid of drawn lines, removed in past works, is left and the structure not only revealed but emphasised both in the deliberate use of red pencil lines as opposed to the grey of the ‘under drawing’ graphite pencil and the fact that nothing is layered over the top. It begins a counterpoint of presence/absence which is taken further in ‘’rough grids” in which another simple structural binary small/large, which relates both to the size of the canvas and it’s relation to the size of the grid, profoundly affects how and what is perceived.