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Philip Hunter

The image is of Western Victoria's Wimmera district.

Philip Hunter, Day Plains X, 2002

Hunter is seen as reinventing the landscape tradition in Australia.

Philip Hunter, Day Plains VII, 2002

What we are offered is an ethos of place as an individual locale instead of studio works painted from memory and full of nostalgia and sentiment.

Philip Hunter, Night Plains IV, 2002

What is being referred to is a post-European settlement landscape of disappointment and failed ambitions: the failed farm, the drought, walking off the land, bushfires, salinity.

There is a reflection here about the history of white settlement. Tis time to get a little more hard headed.

Is it a reworking of the Australian sublime?

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at September 6, 2004 12:49 AM | TrackBack