Born in Sydney in 1964, Peter Sharp graduated with a bachelor's degree in Art Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Painting in 1987 at the City Art Institute (later Sydney College of Advanced Education).
Since 2004, however, Sharp has had an annual exhibition at the Liverpool Street Gallery in Sydney, including the critically acclaimed Whale, Sounding, and Spider shows and most recently, Handle.
In 1996, Sharp was awarded the Jacaranda Drawing Prize[1] and, in the following year, was granted a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where he collaborated with French printmakers to make a series of lithographs and etchings.
He has also held residencies at the Melbourne Aquarium and Loreto Kirribilli Girls School at the Taronga Zoo in Sydney which were bestowed in 2004 and 2009, respectively.
Sharp's work has often included prints and he has undergone numerous projects and collaborations with printmakers such as Bronwyn Reese (1996), Michael Kempson (2001), Salvatore Gerardi (2005) and, most commonly, with Brenda Tye (1998–2009).