Golden Point I

Framed in a thin line Mountain Ash frame with a Natural Wax or Japan Black finish.
"My g-g-g grandfather Peter Wolfe arrived in Chewton in 1856 fresh off the boat from Ireland and our family has lived in the district and Central Victoria ever since. Unlike many new chums who came to the Forest Creek diggings seeking a fortune in gold, Peter was a mounted trooper - a copper - and he and wife Mary and their ever-expanding family were stationed at Red Hill. The old lock up is there to this day.
The Chewton bushland remain one of my favourite places to walk, draw and ponder the effects of the gold rush on the landscape and the Jaara people. If the local mob hold country in stories, myths and song, then, in my own small way, I'd like to think these paintings are our 'memory box' a place where my family's collective experience lives on. For better or worse."
As a painter and photographer Michael Wolfe draws inspiration from the landscape around his home in Castlemaine, Victoria. He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally and his work is included in public, corporate and private collections.

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Michael has had over 40 solo exhibitions, numerous group shows, been included in the 2019 Castlemaine State Festival with the exhibition ‘Shimmer’, the 2020 contemporary landscape survey show (Con)textural Landscapes at Bendigo Art Gallery with Ben Quilty, Rosalie Gascoigne, Rover Thomas; 2022/23 National Portrait Gallery Prize touring exhibition and collaborated with renowned Australian author Alex Miller in the international collab project and exhibition Now&Them in Shanghai China.

His 2022 exhibition, a collaboration with writer Kirsten Krauth and lyrics by Nick Cave, Someone To Watch Over Me – The Better Angels of Our Nature, was part of St Kilda Writer’s Week, Ballarat International Photo Biennale and International Poetry Day.

Michael’s exhibition of 20 portraits of artists over 70 ‘twenty/seventy’ was held at Castlemaine Art Museum in 2024, with an accompanying documentary and radio series.

He has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally and his work is included in public, corporate and private collections.