Bett Gallery Hobart - Philip Wolfhagen

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Philip Wolfhagen Oil & Beeswax Paintings
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Exhibitions
Melbourne Art Fair 2008 30 July to 3 August 2008	Vapour Trails 17 May to 13 July 2007 Embassy of Australia Washington DC, USA
Salon 7 November to 5 December 2006	Luminary Traces 5 May to 6 June 2006 20th Anniversary Exhibition
Noctiluca 21 May to 16 June 2004
Publications available from Bett Gallery Hobart
Peter Timms Philip Wolfhagen: Surface Tensions Tasmanian Monograph series	Packet of greeting cards from exhibition Luminary Traces

Philip Wolfhagen – Curriculum Vitae (May 2007)
Biography
1963	Born Launceston, Tasmania
1987	Bachelor of Fine Arts, Centre for the Arts, the University of Tasmania, Hobart
1990	Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney
1990–95	Lived and worked in Sydney
	Currently lives and works in Tasmania
Solo Exhibitions
2007	Vapour Trails, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC, USA
2006	Luminary Traces, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart, TAS Night Visions, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
2005	Night Beacons, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2004	The Inner Edge, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW The Inner Edge, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS Noctiluca, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart, TAS Archipelago, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk, Launceston, TAS
2003	Archipelago, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk, Launceston, TAS Shifting light, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2002	high ground, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW
2001	Winter Journeys, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
2000	converging planes, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW Liawenee Exploration, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart, TAS
1999	Cross Sections, Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1998	Surface Tension, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1997	Six Level Seas and Four Recollections, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS Plateaux, Chapman Gallery, Canberra, ACT
1996	Illuminations, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW
1995	Vanishing Points, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1994	Passages, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, NSW
1993	Elevations, Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre, Devonport, TAS; Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1992	Illusory Fields, Series 2, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS
1991	Illusory Fields, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1990	The Stages of a Delirium, Syme Dodson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
	The Path of Least Resistance, Salamanca Place Gallery (Bett Gallery), Hobart, TAS
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007	Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
2006/07	From an Island South, Asia Link Touring Exhibition; Lahore, Pakistan; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Bangkok, Thailand
2006	Australia and Constable, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Senses of Place: Art in Tasmania, 1970-2005, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS Salon, curated by Catherine Wolfhagen, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart, TAS
2005	Rhapsody 21C: Tasmanian Contemporary Art, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Launceston, TAS
2004-05	Great Escapes, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW
2004	Frank Saxby Acquisitions, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW Tidal, Devonport Regional Gallery, TAS
2003	Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Gallery, Shepparton, VIC Depth of Field, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, VIC Painting Tasmanian Landscape, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS
2002	Extreme Landscapes (with Philip Hughes), Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney, NSW
2001	Redlands Westpac Art Prize, (first prize), Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW Five Painters, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW Aspects of Tasmanian Art, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk, Launceston, TAS Between Phenomena - The Panorama in Tasmania, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, TAS Poets and Painters, Bett Gallery Hobart, Hobart, TAS
2000	Through the Landscape, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS Uncommon World: Aspects of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
1999	distance, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney,NSW
1998	1998 Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW Contemporary Australian Art from the Tamar Collection, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS Leading the Way: 1997–98 Acquisitions Exhibition, Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW
1997	Australian Perspecta: Between Art and Nature, Temple of Earth Memories, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; national tour ANON, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW Site and Sensibility: A Selection from the Artbank Collection, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, nsw The Horizon Line, King Street Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1996–98	Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney; regional gallery tour
1996	Moët & Chandon Touring Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; national tour Brushing the Dark: Recent Art from Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS; Perc Tucker Gallery, Townsville, QLD; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW; Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA; Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth, WA; Brisbane Civic Gallery & Arts Centre, Brisbane, QLD; Burnie Regional Gallery, TAS; Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS
1995-96	Blundstone Contemporary Art Award, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS; Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Waverley City Gallery, Melbourne, VIC
1995	The Artist's Garden, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT Windows on Australia I, Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan Figure/Ground, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart, TAS Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Storehouse, Long Gallery, Salamanca Place, Hobart, TAS Hidden Treasures; Art in Corporate Collections, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Group Show, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, NSW
1994	Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW Rommix, ROM Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1992	Festival of Fisher’s Ghost Award, (first prize), Campbelltown City Art Gallery, NSW Seven, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW Salon des Refusés, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1991	Microcosm, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, NSW
1989	The October Show, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS Genius Loci: Spirit of Place, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart; RMIT, Melbourne, VIC
1988	Thinly Veiled Threats, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart, TAS 12th International Print Biennale, Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Cracow, Poland Fragments of False Houses, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London, UK
Commissions and Grants
2007	Winner, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, NSW
2001	Winner, Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Sydney, NSW Awarded the Centenary Medal, for contribution made to the Arts
1998	Commonwealth Law Courts, Melbourne, VIC
1997	Royal Women’s Hospital, Sydney, NSW
1996	Illuminations, Australia Council, VACB Project Grant
1995	Sydney Grammar School Fellowship in Art, Sydney, NSW
1993	Elevations, Australia Council, VACB Project Grant
1990	Art for Public Buildings Scheme, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Hobart Project for Murray High School, Unknown Landscapes, Queenstown, TAS
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
TarraWarra Museum of Art, Victoria
Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
Devonport Gallery & Arts Centre, TAS
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
New England Regional Art Museum
University of Tasmania, Hobart
University of Technology, Sydney
Muzeum Narodowe W Warsawie, Poland
Artbank
Derwent Collection, TAS
Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Melbourne and London
Pat Corrigan Collection, Australia
Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
Tamar Collection, Launceston
Esk Collection, TAS
Private Collections Australia, New Zealand, Japan, UK, Canada and USA
Selected Bibliography
Laura Murray Cree (ed.), Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986-2006, Craftsman House, Melbourne, 2006
Anne Gray. ‘Australia and Constable’, catalogue essay, Constable: Impressions of Land Sea and Sky, NGA, March 2006
Peter Timms, Philip Wolfhagen (a Tasmanian Monograph presented through Arts Tasmania), Craftsman House, Melbourne 2005
Malcolm Bywaters, Rhapsody 21C: Tasmanian Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, 2 – 27 May 2005
Gillian Serisier, ‘The art of collectives’, Australian Art Market Report, no. 14, December 2004 – February 2005, pp.30–32
‘Philip Wolfhagen’, Artlink, vol.24, no.3, 2004, p.93
Terry Ingram, 'Feeding feeding at show’, Saleroom, Australian Financial Review, 12 August 2004, p.20
David Hansen, 'Philip Wolfhagen', Art & Australia , vol.42, no.1, spring 2004, pp.90–95
Maria Rae, ‘Gallery director in love with history’, Examiner News, 12 June 2004, p.?
Philip Wolfhagen, Noctiluca, artist’s statement, Bett Gallery Hobart, May–June 2004
Laura Murray Cree, ‘Beauty and hidden agendas’, State of the Arts, July–September 2003, pp.80–82
Susan McCulloch, ‘An earthy masterpiece’, Weekend Australian, 19–20 April 2003
Bridget Arkless, Philip Wolfhagen: Archipelago, exhibition catalogue, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk, February 2003
Benjamin Genocchio, ‘Residues of space’, Weekend Australian, 29–30 June 2002
Michael Hutak, ‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’, Australian Art Collector, issue 15, 2001
Dinah Dysart & Jackie Dunn, Artbank: Australian Art in Public Places, Artbank, 2001
Robert Nelson, ‘The “death of painting” a little premature’, Age, 22 September 2001
Peter Clarke, ‘Picture perfect’, Country Style, June 2001
Georgia Warner, ‘Critics put Tassie artist in elite club’, Mercury, 16 January 2001
Deborah Hart, ‘Uncommon world’, artonview, issue 23, spring 2000
Bruce Roberts, ‘A fish-like boat in a water-like landscape’, Island magazine, winter 2000
Laura Murray Cree & Nevill Drury (eds), Australian Painting Now, Craftsman House, Sydney, 1999
‘Waxing lyrical in Tasmania’, Australian Art Collector, issue 8, April–June 1999, pp.24, 26
Susan McCulloch, ‘Guy Abrahams: Dealer in optimism’ Australian Art Collector, issue 7, 1999
Joanna Mendelssohn, ‘Liquid landscapes from the island state’, Australian, 12 June 1998
Nevill Drury, Surface Tension, catalogue essay, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, 1998
Deborah Hart, ‘Temple of Earth Memories’, catalogue essay, Australian Perspecta: Between Art and Nature, 1997
Sebastian Smee, ‘180 degrees of separation’, Metro, Sydney Morning Herald, 20–26 June 1997
Victoria Hammond, 'Landscape and memory in Tasmania', Art & Australia, vol 34, no.2, summer 1996, pp.210–219
Victoria Hammond, 'Painting the spirit of place', 40° South, no.5, December 1996
Giles Auty, 'Southern sojourn', Australian, 26–27 October 1996
John McDonald, 'Becoming what one is', Sydney Morning Herald, 26 October 1996
Amanda Meade, 'It starts with a message', Australian, 18 October 1996
John McDonald, 'Peaks of inspiration', Sydney Morning Herald, 4 May 1996
Colin Simpson, 'Challenging winners – to corner cutters', Bulletin, 27 February 1996
Marie Geissler, ‘Banking on art’, Qantas Club Magazine, February 1996, pp.40–43
Giles Auty, 'Sparkle of sweet success', Australian, 17–18 February 1996
Victoria Hammond, Brushing the Dark, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, touring exhibition, January 1996
David Hansen, 'My dog, your car, our art collection', Art Monthly Australia, July 1995
Bronwyn Watson, 'Treasures from the corporate world', Sydney Morning Herald, 3 January 1995
Felicity Fenner, 'Sublime horizons', Sydney Morning Herald, 8 July 1994
Courtney Kidd, 'Landscape as metaphor in the art of Philip Wolfhagen', Contemporary Art Tasmania Magazine, issue no.5, 1994
Richard Stanford, 'Heightening the senses', Elevations, catalogue essay, Devonport Gallery and Arts Centre, September 1993
Christopher Allen, 'Seven at Ivan Dougherty Gallery', Asian Art News, September–October 1992
Nick Waterlow, Seven, exhibition catalogue, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992
Jacques Delaruelle, 'Small is beautiful', Sydney Review, January–February 1992
Jacques Delaruelle, 'In search of the modern soul', Sydney Review, November 1991
Elwyn Lynn, 'Into the landscape of space exploration', Weekend Australian, 12–13 October 1991
Elwyn Lynn, 'Idol worship at the altar of abstraction', Weekend Australian, 27–28 October 1990
David McDowell, 'Hobart: Philip Wolfhagen at Salamanca Place Gallery', Art & Text, no.36, 1990
Nick Waterlow, Genius Loci: Spirit of Place, exhibition catalogue, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 1989
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