Philip Hunter
Lynne Dwyer
June 11 - 12 2011
Swirling white lines float above the golden yellow plains and vast skies in Philip Hunter's latest series of semi-abstract landscapes. A recurring motiff in the artists work, they shimmer with energy and almost pulse with light, like the afterburn of a sparkler.
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Fiona Hile
April 2011
Philip Hunter has talked about his work as ‘an invariably complex field of conceptual possibilities and material outcomes; a zone where different foci, fragments, textures, perspectives, illusory spaces, moods and views coexist.’ A conversation with the artist can be as complex as one of his paintings, and when I visited him recently at his Melbourne studio where he was preparing for a forthcoming exhibition at Sydney’s Tim Olsen Gallery we discussed, among other things, his recent trip to Europe; his new ‘tropical inland sea’ paintings; Borges; Calvino; wasp nests; dog fences; horseshoes; memory palaces; horizons and ‘a vast book with no pages’ . What follows is a slice taken from that conversation.
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Michael Reid
Saturday 4 October 2008
Showcasing the best of Australian art, with an eye to artistic merit and market value.
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Katrina Strickland
Tuesday 22 May 2008, p30.
Tim Olsen has two reasons to be happy this week - Philip Hunter and the federal government's impending resale royalty, writes Katrina Strickland.
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Jo Liston
18 May 2008, p36.
You may not have heard of him, but Philip Hunter has become one of the most sought-after artists in the country almost overnight.
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William Petley
11 May 2008
A Man of the Landscape - Philip Hunter's 'Lines In The Dirt' exhibition will be opened by John Olsen at the Tim Olsen Gallery on Tuesday. (Olsen has commented that the present work reveals Hunter has climbed the ladder to become one of Australia's leading artists.)
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Philip Hunter - The Memory of Water
Australian Art CollectorAshley Crawford
July - Sept 2007
Philip Hunter's creative enquiry into the sublime and the human psyche produces his well-recognised and highly idiosyncratic notion of landscape. Ashley Crawford examines his recent works. Portraits by Kirstin Gollings.
Portraits by Kirstin Gollings
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