About the artist
Graphic, minimalist and refined, Peter D Cole's uncompromising aesthetic vision encompasses both large-scale structures, aerial works, and more intimate, witty ruminations. An accomplished watercolourist and draughtsman, Cole's vision translates easily into works on paper also, valued by collectors for the insight they provide into his practice.
Cole is the recipient of the Australian National Trust Heritage Award (1996) and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architecture Award of Merit (1995), and is highly sought for commissions. His work is prominent in many public and corporate collections throughout Australia, including Parliament House, Canberra, the National Gallery of Australia, and Brisbane International Airport.
About the work
That's Life is a sculptural sentence that narrates the day-to-day cycle of life for most commuters in or to Windsor through its form, language and content: Sleep, Eat, Work, Think, Live, Love. Its playful architectural form and use of shape, colour and light illustrate the artist's modernist view of the environment. This abstracted visual language is characteristic of Cole's lifelong practice as a sculptor. Cole has transformed icons of commuter life and Windsor's local history - cupcakes from Chapel Street's Paterson's Cakes, phones in memory of Peel Street's Telephone Exchange and Aspro in recognition of the drug’s reinvention by George Nicholas in Windsor in 1915 – into a still life of life itself. The work’s architectural methodology expresses concepts and forms characteristic throughout Cole's life as a practising sculptor.