Leanganook X (M)

Framed in a thin line Mountain Ash frame with a Japan Black and Natural Wax finish.
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.
“My work is simultaneously abstract and representational, classical and modern, formalist and expressionist. Discarding the traditional foreground, middle ground and background of European landscape painting, I frequently dispense with the horizon line altogether. I love to flatten the picture plane, adopting an elevated or aerial viewpoint over a scrubby, irregular landscape without a focal point. Although this aerial viewpoint may share some sensibilities with the Papunya dot paintings, they are also informed by cubism and other modernist traditions.”

This artwork is currently available at Bluethumb's Melbourne Gallery in Richmond.

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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.