ABOUT
Peter Dickison is a New Zealand-Australian artist and photographer who works in both the fashion and fine-art world.
His colourful and conceptual photographs are created almost entirely in-camera, often on analogue film, with minimal retouching or post-production. His images aim to transform people, objects and even places into larger-than-life characters—bold, quirky, beautiful, unsettling or strange—often creating scenarios that raise questions then stop just short of answering them, leaving the viewer to bring their own story to the work.
Background
Peter trained at the Christchurch Polytechnic School of Art and Design in New Zealand, then spent a decade shooting fashion editorial and advertising in Sydney.
His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, FHM, Vogue, Noise, Oyster, Cosmopolitan, Cleo, Max, Girlfriend, B, Minx, New Woman, Juice, The International Hairdressers Journal, Total Sports, Music Trader, The Scotsman Magazine and many other publications.
With past representation by Mari Vendrame Management and the Network Agency, he has worked with global brands that include Sony Music, V2 Records, Mattel, Inc./Barbie, Amnesty International, W.&L.T., Filomena Natale, Scotch & Soda, Playtime, Jockey, Toni & Guy, and Converse.
He documented Sydney’s vibrant underground rave, club and dance-party scene through the 1990s and early-2000s, regularly shooting covers and fashion editorial for progressive street-culture titles that were Australia’s equivalent to the UK’s The Face and i-D magazines— Oyster, Catalog, Large, 3D World, and Substance—as well as photographing local and international DJs and musicians, including INXS, Boy George, The Prodigy, Corduroy, CDB, Infusion, Mark Dynamix, Pee Wee and Nervous.
He stepped away from photography in the early 2000s—military service then co-founding UK technology publication Bit-Tech.net, where he became a pioneer in the mid-2000s tech-art scene. Working under the name ‘G-gnome’, his viral computers-as-art projects were featured in online and print publications in Australia, the USA, Europe and Asia, including Wired, Forbes, The Australian Financial Review, Atomic, CPU, Custom PC, FHM, Maximum PC, Microcomputer, Digg.com, Slashdot.org, the TV show Mythbusters, and in books such as Digital Hotrods and PC Modding For Dummies.
After attaining a BA in English and Creative Writing in the 2010s, he worked as a writer and designer for global technology companies before returning to full-time photography in 2025.
His visual language comes from many places: a childhood of clear New Zealand light; the absurdist wit and surrealism of British comedy; the retro-futurist aesthetic of 1970s and 1980s science fiction; the bold colour and stylised narratives of fantasy illustration, tabletop role-playing game art and 8-bit computer games; academic studies in literature, surrealism and narrative; and a neurodivergent way of noticing what doesn’t fit before noticing what does.
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Peter is based in Sydney and available for commissions worldwide.
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"I try to make images that show a frozen moment in a larger, stranger story that’s never fully told, even to me. I'm drawn to scenes where something familiar feels strange, where contradictions occupy the same frame without explanation: the beautiful and the unsettling, the absurd and the ordinary. What’s told versus what’s withheld creates delicious blank spaces just waiting to be filled with wild imaginings.”