Providence Gully 10

This painting faithfully celebrates the original Providence Gully which was featured in Scotty’s house on the Block 2022. After many requests and commissions I've painted a new version.

Framed in a thin line Mountain Ash frame with Danish Oil and Natural Wax finish.

"Being a spontaneous and intuitive painter usually means I do the figuring out in the early stages of painting then kind of let it rip with the gesture and vigorous mark making. Not rocket surgery but it does require of you to be completely absorbed in the moment. Thelonius Monk is my drug of choice for improvising. I’m looking to strip the landscape back to its bare bones then add flourishes of colour, texture and gesture."

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.