Peter Wegner (Australian artist)

Peter Wegner (born 1953) is a Melbourne-based figurative painter, sculptor, and draughtsman.

His work hangs in many galleries in Australia, and he is known for winning the Archibald Prize in 2021.

[1] He gained a fine arts degree in 1985,[1] and obtained a postgraduate diploma in 1988[2] from the Phillip Institute of Technology.

[1] After Wegner exhibited his work in a in group exhibition in 1977, having had no training in art, he was awarded a two-year A.M.E. Bale residential painting scholarship under Sir William Dargie.

[1] After gaining his degree and diploma, he started lecturing in the Drawing Department of Ballarat University, and has also since been a visiting lecturer at La Trobe, Monash and RMIT universities.