Peter E. Charuk is an active artist and educator. He has an extensive career in the visual and electronic arts. His experience includes exhibitions in the U.S., Bulgaria, U.K. and numerous Australian Galleries. He has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes and awards. He works with video installation, artists’ books, photographic imagery, sound and text. His work is represented in several major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, AGNSW, Artbank and the Polaroid International Collection. In 2002, Peter was one of the inaugural recipients of a Western Sydney Artists’ Fellowship. In 2005 he was an ANAT Synapse Artist in Residence at the CSIRO Marine Research in Hobart and in 2007awarded a New Work Grant from the Australia Council to develop – Glacial Lux. His current research engages with a thematic of ‘water’.