Peta Minnici (b. 1990, Sydney) is an Australian artist working primarily in oil painting and drawing. Her work explores memory, longing, and the fragile thresholds between presence and absence. Constructing atmospheric interiors, contemplative still lifes, and intimate figurative paintings, Minnici draws upon personal experience to create works that resonate with emotional and psychological depth. Recurring motifs of glass, veils, and reflective surfaces operate as metaphors for the instability of time, recollection, and the body. Through layered mark-making and tonal modulation, her paintings unfold gradually, leaving a spectral imprint of transience and desire.

Minnici has exhibited widely across Australia in both solo and group exhibitions, including at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Brett Whiteley Studio, the National Art School, Kedumba Gallery, and Clayton Utz. Her work has been recognised with major awards and accolades, including the John Olsen Prize for Drawing, the Parkers Fine Art Award for Painting, and the Kedumba Drawing Award. She has been a finalist in the Dobell Drawing Prize (2019, 2021), the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2017), the Calleen Art Award, and the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, among others. Residencies include the Bundanon Trust and Presbyterian Ladies’ College.

Her work is represented in both private and public collections across Australia and has been profiled in Art Collector magazine, as well as in critical writing by Amber Creswell Bell (Still Life) and Judith Pugh (Clayton Utz: The First Five Years).

Minnici holds a Bachelor and Master of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing from the National Art School, Sydney.