Neon

Gallery: NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2013-14
Exhibition: Melbourne Now

Light Rain – and everything we know about the universe (except gravity) 2013, coll. NGV, Melbourne, installation view

Light rain – and everything we know about the universe (except gravity) 2013, coll. NGV, Melbourne, installation view

Light rain – and everything we know about the universe (except gravity) 2013, coll. NGV, Melbourne, detail view

Light rain – and everything we know about the universe (except gravity) 2013, coll. NGV, Melbourne, installation view

Light rain – and everything we know about the universe (except gravity) 2013, coll. NGV, Melbourne, detail

Light rain – and everything we know about the universe (except gravity) 2013, coll. NGV, Melbourne, detail

Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2012
Exhibition: Less is More: Minimal and Post-Minimal Art in Australia

Ceiling Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (extended 2012), at right; Floor Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (inverted 2012), at left, installation view

Ceiling Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (extended 2012), at right; Floor Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (inverted 2012), at left

Ceiling Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (extended 2012), at left; Floor Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (inverted 2012), at right

Ceiling Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (extended 2012), at left; Floor Piece, 1970, remade 2011, (inverted 2012), at right

Gallery: IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011
Exhibition: Peter Kennedy Light Years 1970-71

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney, detail

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney, detail

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney, detail

Floor Piece, No 2, 1970, remade 2011, coll. AGNSW, Sydney, detail

An essay on Peter Kennedy’s early neon installations, “Engaging the Avant-Garde” by Stephen Jones, is at ‘Selected Articles’ on this site.

Gallery: IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011
Exhibition: Peter Kennedy Light Years 1970-71

Gallery: IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011
Exhibition: Peter Kennedy Light Years 1970-71

Gallery: IMA, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2011
Exhibition: Peter Kennedy Light Years 1970-71

Gallery: NGA, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2013

Gallery: MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2010
Exhibition: New Acquisitions in Context 2010

Gallery: McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin, Melbourne, 2007-08
Exhibition: The Farside of the Moon

Galleries: NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart 1998 - 2002

NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Recent Acquisitions, 2005, One Long Catastrophe, 2000-02, coll. NGV, Melbourne

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Commissioned Artworks, 1999 NOWANDTHEN Thursday 27 February 1997, 1997-98, detail

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Commissioned Artworks, 1999 NOWANDTHEN Thursday 27 February 1997, 1997-98, coll. TMAG, Hobart

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Commissioned Artworks, 1999 NOWANDTHEN Thursday 27 February 1997, 1997-98, coll. TMAG, Hobart

The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Peter Kennedy Selected Works 1970 to 2002, 2002 At the end of the twentieth century – Comedy and Tragedy Step Out, 2000-02

The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, Peter Kennedy Selected Works 1970 to 2002, 2002 Neon Light Installations, 1970, remade 2002 (above) & People who died the day I was born – April 18, 1945, Part 2, 1997-98, (below) , installation view

light as a feather, 2003, limited edition

John Wardle Architects, Melbourne, 2003
Title: And So… Illumination 1

Gallery: ACCA, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 1998
Exhibition: Requiem for Ghosts, Peter Kennedy

A Language of the Dead, 1997-98, coll. NGA, Canberra at ACCA, 1998

People who died the day I was born – April 18, 1945, Part 2, 1997-98, installation view

Receptacles for Dreams of the Twentieth Century Dead, 1997-98

Panic Mantra – A Breathless Performance, 1997-98 (above) & The Illuminated Steps – A War Memorial for the Twentieth Century, 1997-98 (below)

Panic Mantra – A Breathless Performance, 1997-98, detail

Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, 1993
Exhibition: Luminaries

Gallery A, Sydney, 1971
Exhibition: Peter Kennedy Luminal Sequences

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, installation detail

Luminal Sequences, detail

Luminal Sequences, detail

Luminal Sequences, detail

Luminal Sequences, detail

Luminal Sequences, detail

An essay on Peter Kennedy’s early neon installations, “Engaging the Avant-Garde” by Stephen Jones, is at ‘Selected Articles’ on this site

Marland House Sculpture Competition, Melbourne, 1971
Untitled maquette, 1970-71, details

Gallery A, Sydney, 1970
Exhibition: Tim Johnson and Peter Kennedy

Gallery A, Sydney, 1970
Exhibition: Peter Kennedy Neon Light Installations

Luminal Variations, 1970, (never publicly exhibited)

IMAGES:
Michael Andrews, John Brash, Robert Colvin, Sandy Edwards, Stephen Jones, Peter Kennedy, MCA, Trevor Mein, NGA, NGV, Sonia Payes, Kenneth Pleban, Richard Stringer, Robert Walker, Karl Warner