A woman must serve her God, her Father, and her Husband

And then God went mad from staring at atoms

Bring it on (I have no fear of myself)

Don't wait for Life. It won't wait for you.

Feeling is Believing

I love her you see, and if she took up golf...

Instant Individuation

Just wait you'll see. They'll send someone.

The landscape of time is criss-crossed by scars

Portrait of a yeti

The Madonna of Lake Tanganyika

To dream of being seen - if only for a moment - by the things in

When-sound-goes

My dear Edward. There are creatures beyond the reach of

BORN: 1972 in Johannesburg EDUCATION: 1989 Matriculated from SACS with full academic colours EXHIBITIONS: SOLO 2004 ‘10' - Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town & Community Arts Workshop -ten professional artists from diverse backgrounds gathered in a communal studio at the Castle of Good Hope . Their purpose was to explore and evaluate, through the process of working together, the first ten years of democracy in South Africa. 2003 ‘Peter van Straten’s Intimate History of Everything’ - Knysna Fine Art, Knysna 2002 ‘Buckle your Seat-belt, Dorothy .....’, Knysna Fine Art, Knysna 2001 Obs Café, Observatory, Cape Town Namaste, Observatory, part of ‘Walking the Street’ Festival 2000 Third I Gallery 1999 ‘To Hell with Reality’ - Intecaf, Observatory, Cape Town ‘Clouds’ - Amani Wine Farm, Stellenbosch Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg 1998 Chalk Farm Gallery, London Labuschagne Residence, Durbanville 1997 Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg 1993 Mellville Visual Arts Foundation, Melville GROUP 2001 Grafiti Gallery, Cape Town ‘Telling Tales’ - Third I Gallery ‘Tastings’ - Klarity Gallery 2000 ‘Artists from The Cape’ - Old Arts Gallery, University of Pretoria ‘Catharsis’ - Johannesburg ‘Falling Awake’ - collaborated with Heel Arts Collective for the Once City Many Cultures Festival, Cape Town 1999 Peter Visser Antiques Exhibition of Whale paintings - Grobellaar Hall, Hermanus & Two Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town ‘Year 2000' - Chelsea Gallery, Wynberg Arts Association, Bellville 1999 Lightworkers Conference - New York, USA 1998 Peter Visser Gallery, Cape Town 1996 ‘Ad-verts’ - Primart, Claremont 1995 With Gail Catlin - Primart, Claremont 1992 Grahamstown Festival AWARDS: 1992 Murati Award for Best Student 1989 Sanlam Student Art Award COMMISSIONS: 2000 Statue of the Virgin for the Roman Catholic Church, Kimberley 1997 Two works for the home of Mr Mac Maharaj FEATURES: 2001 - Opening episode of ‘Innertainment’, SABC - First ‘Artist of the Week’, launch of Global Arts Information - Featured Artist in first publications of AHUM magazine - Launched satirical newspaper, ‘The Observer’ and appointed editor and Director of Arts Fund. Interviewed with Louw Venter, for DSTV in this capacity BOOKS: 2001 Short stories included in ‘Urban One’, published by Spearhead 1993 Wrote ‘Tales from the Fish Hypnotist’, ‘The Complete and Scrumptious Tales of Sir Alfred Laughingdale’ and ‘Corpus Greep’ Peter van Straten has also written songs and performed with two bands, ‘Funkaberry’ and ‘Psycho-Pop’. He lives and works in Cape Town.