Hanging Rock / Ngannelong 16

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.
Ready to hang and framed in a thin line Mountain Ash tray frame with a natural Danish oil finish. 
A bold and colourful statement piece from an artist who is passionate about our Australian landscape. 

“I’ve often said I’m just happy getting to the next picture, meaning that, over the years there is rarely a huge shift in the form of my paintings. These paintings take a slightly different direction – open, flat areas of colour, collapsed perspective – taking their cues from the granite tors and boulders of Hanging Rock near Mount Macedon and Woodend in Central Victoria.
Hanging Rock has fitted in so much over 6 million years… from a sacred place for local indigenous people and backdrop to Joan Lindsay’s book Picnic at Hanging Rock and Peter Weir’s film of the same title, to a colourful host of music concerts, markets and popular horse races, the Rock tells many tales about the history of the Macedon Ranges.

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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.