Peter Monk Sculptor

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Peter Monk Sculptor

Peter Monk Sculptor celebrates over 100 sculptural works spanning over a half century.

Peter is a Montreal-based sculptor and businessman. Peter Monk Sculptor works have encompassed many different expressive periods over 50 years, including Early Work, Early Wood, 1970-1980, Post-Conceptual Art, The Lyrical Period, Figures, Images from a Changing World 1990-2016, Prelude to The Spirits, The Spirits. These periods can be found under the Work menu. A full biography and writings on Peter Monk can be found under the About menu (en Francais ici). Sculpting feeds the soul of Peter Monk Sculptor and indirectly benefits the Monk Family Foundation. Peter Monk Studied Art at the following institutions: Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (1962-1965), Montreal Ecole des Beaux Arts, Montreal (1966-1971), Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal (1972-1983).

Several of Peter Monk’s sculptures are part of McGill University’s Visual Arts Collection. Scroll down to see a video tour of Peter Monk sculptures on display at the McGill campus.

Peter Monk Sculptures at McGill University

Peter Monk (1937- ) has spent a lifetime as a sculptor exploring how to shape stone and make it expressive. Largely abstract, his sculptures demonstrate an incredible ability to make twisting curves in stone. Studying first through a program at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, then the Ecole des Beaux Arts, and finally at the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Monk developed his own practice, working every day in his studio before he started his day job in business. Using stone ranging from Carrara marble to Greek Alabaster, Monk honed his skills; this is not a medium for amateurs, it requires patience, practice, and an eye for seeing aesthetic possibilities. Cuts can reveal surprises below the surface, veins of colour or flaws in the rock that make the process of carving the stone involve revision and rethinking. In Peter Monk’s work, it is as if he cut the stone to reveal what was there inside from the beginning of time.

Thank you to the Monk Family Foundation for their generous donations to the McGill Visual Arts Collection. All artworks © Peter Monk Sculptor, 2023.
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Courtesy McGill Visual Arts Collection. Video by Kiana Vakily, McGill Visual Arts Collection Intern, 2023.

Gisele Hamelin, Peter Monk, Joan Monk and Michael Fish at a show at The exhibition hall in Montreal, Palais de Congres, 2016.
Gisele Hamelin, Peter Monk, Joan Monk and Michael Fish at a show at The exhibition hall in Montreal, Palais de Congres, 2016.