Essays
1978 Peter Lorimer, ‘Some of the Finite Projective Planes’, Mathematical Intelligencer, 5, 41-50
1994 Robert Nelson, ‘Speculations on the Empirical Lyre of Peter James Smith’, catalogue essay for Statistical Text, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Keith Stewart, ‘Probability Bites’, article, Quote Unquote, August
1996 Keith Stewart, ‘Ditch—Peter James Smith: Painting the Gap’, catalogue essay for Hypertext, Gallery 101, Melbourne, Australia
1997 Keith Stewart, ‘Life Science’, article, New Zealand Listener, 2 August
1999 Ben Marshall, ‘Painting x Numbers’, article, Australian Style, 31, 101
1999 Elizabeth Kerr, Looking South - across time, distance, place and culture, catalogue essay, Milford Galleries, Dunedin, New Zealand
2000 John Gregory, ‘Peter James Smith: ‘It is by gathering data that we come to know about the world’, Eyeline, 41, 48–9
2000 Pat Baskett, ‘All-rounder for our post-modern times’, article, New Zealand Herald, Auckland, New Zealand, 24 April
2000 David Famularo, ‘Mathematical Musings’, article, The Dominion, Wellington, New Zealand, 17 November
2001 Stephanie Radok, ‘A water or a light’, article, Artlink, 21, 51-2
2001 Martina Copley, ‘Terrain’, catalogue essay for A Cinematic Trace, Judith Anderson Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2001 Martina Copley, ‘The Ship’s Wake’, catalogue essay for Underlapping Science, Gallery 101, Melbourne; Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
2001 Patrick Hutchings, ‘Number is the Wisest Thing’, catalogue essay for Underlapping Science,
Gallery 101, Melbourne Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
2002 Synergy, exhibition catalogue, CSIRO Marine Research Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania
2005 John Armstrong, ‘The Art of the Modern Sublime’, catalogue essay for Illumined by Darkness, Edmiston Duke Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
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2008 Claire Watson, ‘Truth + Beauty’, catalogue essay for Truth + Beauty, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria, Australia