Peter Roche

Peter Roche lost his battle with lung cancer on 24 July 2020, leaving behind a life’s work of sculptures, drawings, videos and photographic documentation.

Mourners were able to get a sense of the literally electrifying environment he had created for himself at the funeral held in the Ambassador Theatre in Point Chevalier, where the artist had lived since he purchased the derelict Art Deco cinema in 1996.

Having only sporadic contact with Roche since the 1990s, this was a life I only knew through hearsay. I understood it to be one dominated by his consuming passion