Peter Rosson was born in Geelong in 1954, he was educated at The Geelong College and began a lifelong career as an artist after completing a Diploma of Fine Arts at the Gordon Institute of Technology in 1975.

Peter spent many years refining his technique as one of the most significant painters of his generation. He continually pushed the boundaries of his own creativity and social commentary, from the realism of his early work, through to the abstraction of his post-modernist collages, to the beautiful and evocative expressionist landscapes of the mid-eighties, then finally the digital mandalas of his later career.

Peter was a prolific painter with over 600 works, he held over twenty solo exhibitions, numerous group exhibitions, the most recent being a ‘Survey Exhibition’ at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in 1997. Peter was a finalist in the prestigious Archibald Prize in 1979 and 1987. His works hang in private collections worldwide.

In 2021, SBS released a 4-part documentary titled ‘Framed’ the story of Australias biggest art heist- the theft of Picasso's Weeping Woman, a crime for which Peter and his partner were framed in 1986. The documentary included interviews with Peter’s family discussing the impact the accusations had on Peter and his career. The crime remains unsolved.

Peter tragically died in 2002 in Sydney at the age of 48.