Peter Lankas - Artist

Peter Lankas lives and breathes art. He is a painter and drawer who is a dedicated art teacher and lifelong art learner.

Through the depth of his exploration of the ordinary and everyday he is able to express, with absolute integrity, the peculiarities and individuality of any situation or environment he may inhabit. It is through total immersion in his subject that Lankas invests it with such vitality and individuality.

The intensity of his gaze remains the same, whether fixed on the tropics, the repetitions of suburbia, the intimacy of a domestic interior, the masses of humanity naked in the melanomic Australian sun, or the frantic, manic swirl of Indian street life.

Lankas’ work is focused on his immediate environment and all the subtleties from which it is formed; the physical stage in which the dramas and comedies of the everyday are played out; the theatre of life. He is enchanted by the notion of discovering and establishing artistically the essence of place; those essential ingredients that give any locality its individuality and unique presence.

His first exhibition at Straitjacket was in 2022 “Loungeroom escape” His second exhibition was in 2024 “Turn return”. His next exhibition is scheduled for 2026. 

View his STOCKROOM artworks here