Peter Webb

Peter Webb graduated in Horticultural Science in Australia where he was born. He worked as a seed collector and orchid cultivator at the Royal Botanic Gardens and then at Melbourne University in his hometown of Melbourne. He became involved with and studied permaculture then left to collect seeds, work with tree surgery in London (England), and studied Bio-dynamic Agriculture before moving to Brazil where he currently lives.

He lived in the mountains of Southeastern Brazil within a peasant community, where he built his house, raised sheep and planted his own food together with his companion. After 14 years he moved to Sao Paulo to live with 18 million people where his work is diverse; environmental recuperation, permaculture classes, tree surgery, teaching with Gaia Education, Schumacher College, eco-psychology, agro-forestry, Tibetan Buddhism and phenomenology....

After meeting artist Otobong Nkanga in 2014 just before the Sao Paulo Biennial, his work deepened into a sensitive exploration with people and their perceptions of objects and landscape.