Three Days on Somers Beach

Acrylic Paint on Canvas and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This artwork comes with an external frame.

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

2850mm wide x 950mm high x 20mm deep in three panels

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“Like many Australians, I grew up in an era when summer holidays were long, hot and languorous. My senses still tingle at the smell of wood smoke from the BBQ, burning asphalt, eucalyptus and chlorine. Days moved slowly at the local pool and on the many beaches stretching down the bay to the peninsula. Although I live in country Victoria, I often spend summer in Somers with dear friends who kindly lend me their carport for a makeshift painting camp. These paintings, completed over Easter 2024, are a celebration of the beach and the gentler rhythms of holidays.”

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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.