'Hunter's art is not topographical. He is not so much interested in place as in experience of place. That said, the prolonged and repeated visits to particular areas mean the continuing fertility of these places for the artist's imaginative endeavours and a concomitant power of expressive force. Substitutions of place are the outcome of the artist's intellectual and creative processes. For Hunter a move signifies an inner call for new resources from which to extrapolate those elements which feed his expressive needs.'
'Hunter's palette is restricted to earth colours and the ubiquitous white. The drama of expression he achieves wthin this restricton speaks of the strength of his meditations on how to organize the layerings of his experience onto a canvas surface. The finished product is always visually dense and activated. The viewer is an actual witness to the artists processes, to the selection of motives, forms, colours, rhythms, and textures which gives limits to those chaotic forces which have shaped the artist and the natural phenomena which are his source.'
Peter Haynes, extracts from 'Philip Hunter,' Exhibition Catalogue, Nolan Gallery, Canberra August 1998
'Hunter's palette is restricted to earth colours and the ubiquitous white. The drama of expression he achieves wthin this restricton speaks of the strength of his meditations on how to organize the layerings of his experience onto a canvas surface. The finished product is always visually dense and activated. The viewer is an actual witness to the artists processes, to the selection of motives, forms, colours, rhythms, and textures which gives limits to those chaotic forces which have shaped the artist and the natural phenomena which are his source.'
Peter Haynes, extracts from 'Philip Hunter,' Exhibition Catalogue, Nolan Gallery, Canberra August 1998
| BIOGRAPHY | |
| 1958 Born at Donald, Australia | |
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| Solo exhibitions |
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| 2013 | Geobloom, Sophie Gannon Gallery, Melbourne |
| 2011 | Southern Oscillations, Block Projects, Melbourne |
| 2010 |
Philip Hunter: Traces of Rain, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 2009 | Between the Lines, Philip Hunter Drawings, Latrobe University Museum of Art Exhibition, Stefans's Gallery 25, Mildura |
| 2008 | Philip Hunter: Lines in the Dirt, Tim Olsen Galleries, Sydney |
| 2006 | Philip Hunter: Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane |
| 2005 | Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne Phillip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2004 | The Long Paddock, Melbourne Art Fair Flatlands, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney Plains, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
| 2003 | Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2002 | Wimmera: The work of Philip Hunter, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney |
| 2001 | The Plains, The Ian Potter of Art, The University of Melbourne, in conjunction |
| 2000 | Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra |
| 1999 | Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1998 | The Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, Canberra Smyrnios Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1995 | Changing Landscapes New Prospects, Meridian Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1992 | The Territory 1st Hemisphere, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne The Garden Cycle, Macquarie Gallery, Sydney |
| 1990 | The Visit Cycle, City Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1989 | The Continent Cycle, City Gallery, Melbourne |
| 1987 | United Artists Gallery, Melbourne Warrnambool Art Gallery,Vic. |
| 1986-7 | Arden Street, Melbourne |
| 1984 | Christine Abrahams Gallery (Axiom Gallery), Melbourne |
| 1982 | Axiom Gallery, Melbourne |
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| Selected group exhibitions |
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| 2008 | Contemporaneous: Australian Contemporary Painting 1, Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery, Victoria |
| 1998 | National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Gallery. The Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melb. Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery |
| 1996 | The Sulman Prize, The Art Gallery of NSW Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prizes: Regional Tour of Selected Works - Regional Gallery, Grafton Regional Gallery, Lismore Regional Gallery. Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery |
| 1994 | Between the Paddock and the House, Philip Hunter and Greg Wain, The Baillieu Myer Collection, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne |
| 1993 | Moet & Chandon Touring Exhib. |
| 1992 | Moet & Chandon Touring Exhib. |
| 1991 | Moet & Chandon Touring Exhib. Tokyo Art Expo, Tokyo, Japan Transitional Times: the Approaching Fin de Siecle, Victorian Print Workshop, |
| 1990 | Recent Acquisitions 1986 - 1990, National Gallery of Victoria, Melb. Second Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Exhibition Building, Melb. |
| 1989 | 6 x 3 and Paul Grabowsky Performance, (Spiral Scratch Records), City |
| 1988 | Moet & Chandon Touring Exhib. A New Generation, Philip Morris Collection, Australian National Gallery Directors' Choice Exhibition, Storey Hall, RMIT Gallery, Melb. |
| 1987 | Artists in the Field, Darwin Natural History and Fine Arts Museum, Darwin Koongarra: Philip Hunter and Ian Friend, National Australia Bank, Collins |
| 1986 | Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne Fears and Scruples, The University of Melbourne Gallery |
| 1984 | The Australians, C.D.S. Gallery, New York |
| 1983 | Australian Perspecta, The Art Gallery of New South Wales |
| 1982 | Young Melbourne Painters, Monash University Gallery, Melb. Ansett Art Award, Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria |
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| Awards and Commissions | |
| 1998 | Deutsche Bank 1996 - 99 Australian Postgraduate Research Award |
| 1994-95 | Melbourne University Postgraduate Scholarship |
| 1992 | Print Council, Visual Arts Board Grant |
| 1984 | Australia Council, Visual Arts Board Grant |
| 1982 | Ansett Art Award |
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| Selected Collections | |
| Australian National Gallery , Canberra Monash University, Victoria Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria The Baillieu Myer Collection, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria Shell Australia Collection Deutsche Bank City of Banyule Art Collection Tamworth City Art Gallery, N.S.W Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston Customs House Gallery, Victoria Canson Australia Pty. Ltd., Victoria Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania Deakin University, Victoria Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria Victorian College of the Arts, Victoria Artbank Macquarie Bank |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
| Peter Craven, 'Return to the landscape', The Australian, 20 May 2008, pp14-15. Jo Litson, 'Hunter's gathering value', Sunday Telegraph, 18 May 2008, p36. Ashley Crawford, Wimmera: The Work of Philip Hunter, edited by Peter Craven with an introduction by Gerald Murnane, Thames and Hudson, 2002 Sasha Grishin, Play with Perspective, The Canberra Times, 28th September, 1998 Peter Haynes, exhib. cat., Philip Hunter, The Nolan Gallery, Lanyon, A.C.T., August, 1998 Susan Dewar, China: Dream On, Art and Asia Pacific, Vol.2/No.2, 1995 Alex Selenitsch, Atmosphere and Virus, exhib. cat., Meridian Gallery, July, 1995 Alex Selenitsch, The Middle Distance, Asian Art News, Vol.5/No.5, Sept/October, 1995 Robert Lindsay, The Baillieu Myer Collection of the 80s, 1994 Meridian Gallery at Song He Tang, exhib. cat., Beijing, November, 1994 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, exhib. cat., 1993 Jenepher Duncan, Tedd Gott, John Gregory, Peter King, Philip Hunter: The Territory: 1st Hemisphere, exhib. cat., Monash University Gallery, July, 1992 Marylou Jelbart, ABC Radio National (interview), 2 April, 1992 ABC Television, Philip Hunter: Oils on the Landscape, Review, July, 1992 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, exhib. cat., 1992 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, exhib. cat., 1991 Tokyo Art Expo�1, exhib. cat., 1991 Di Waites, Imprint Magazine, Bullarto Press, Vol.26/No.3, Spring, 1991 Averil Vestris, New Age Colours, Victoria College Magazine, No. 7, May 1990 Charles Green, Philip Hunter City Gallery, Artforum International, Vol.29/ No., 1990 Gary Catalano, A Shared Ambivalence, The Age, 20 December, 1989 Charles Green, Backlash, Tension 19, December, 1989 Ronald Millar, A Romantic Spirit in Search of Home, The Herald, 19 Dec, 1989 Louise Bellamy, Private World of Colour and Grace, The Age, 12 December, 1989 Jenny Zimmer, A Magical Hunter, The Herald, 10 December, 1989 Gary Catalano, The Age, 5 January, 1988 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, exhib. cat., 1988 David Hansen, Philip Hunter: Here and There, Now and Then, exhib. cat., Warrnambool Art Gallery, 1987 Ronald Millar, Brown View of Kakadu, The Herald, 30 June, 1987 Gary Catalano, Hunter's Kakadu Scenes Belong to Inward World, TheAge, 24 June 1987 Naomi Cass, Fears and Scruples, exhib. cat., The University of Melbourne, 1986 Gary Catalano, Images of Tower Hill, The Age, 24 June, 1987 Geoff Lowe, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, exhib.cat., 200 Gertrude St, 1986 ABC Television, State of the Arts, (interview), September ,1986 |
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