Peter Brook is a visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne Australia. Brook’s current body of work explores the connecting point between digital and handmade, and reflects his ongoing investigation into colour as a spatial and perceptual force. He is interested in how colour can generate the illusion, and at times the sensation, of dimensional space within the confines of the painted surface. Colour can be an active agent, a material that defines, destabilises, and reshapes compositional space. When placed in dialogue, colours behave responsively, pushing and pulling against one another, collapsing fixed spatial hierarchies and creating visual momentum.

His work is grounded in the observation of urban architectural environments—particularly the interplay between the external geometries of built facades and the layered intricacies of interior space. These spatial encounters are manipulated and abstracted into structural motifs that serve as compositional frameworks. Within these frameworks, Brook explores how chromatic relationships can produce dynamic shifts in optical weight, temperature, and spatial positioning, aiming for a perceptual ambiguity and negotiation of meaning.

Following his graduation with a BA Fine Art from Victoria College Prahan – VCA University of Melbourne, Brook has maintained a painting practice as well as working among remote communities in Papua New Guinea for over a decade. He continues to maintain connections with artists and communities in the Pacific and Central Australia.       
Brook re-established a working studio practice at the Brewery Artist Lofts while studying in Los Angeles from 2013-2015, and has regularly exhibited in solo and group exhibitions since returning to Australia.

His work is included in public and private collections in Australia, USA, Canada, Norway, Africa and Papua New Guinea.