Piers is a contemporary artist with a studio practice in painting and field-based performance. A former mountain endurance athlete, Piers revisits this activity, physically traversing landscape and using this selective understanding of terrain to guide his work. Piers considers land from a macro or zoomed out perspective, like a map, building works that engage with personal and cultural narratives within specific places.
Piers completed a MFA by research at the University of Melbourne in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Jon Cattapan, graduating with first-class Honours and winning the DMG Award and David Richards Drawing Award. In 2019 Piers notably won the John Glover Award for landscape painting in Tasmania. In 2022 he was invited to present a major site-specific performance-based work for the European nomadic biennial, Manifesta 14 in Kosovo.