Philip Wolfhagen b. 1963

  • Artist (Painter)
Winner of the 2007 Wynne Prize, Philip Wolfhagen is a contemporary landscape painter whose critically acclaimed works explore his relationship to, and engagement with, the natural surroundings of Tasmania, where he has born and still living in 2008.
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Name
Philip Wolfhagen
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
1963
Birth place
Launceston, Tas.
Active Period
  • 1988-
Residence
  • 1995- Tasmania
  • 1990 - 1995 Sydney, NSW
  • 1960 - 1990 Tasmania
Training
  • Graduate Diploma of Visual Arts, 1990 Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, NSW
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1987 Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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Related stub person groups
  • Bett Gallery, Hobart, Tas. (associate of)
  • Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne, Vic. (associate of)
Related works
  • Summer Study No.1 (creator of)
  • Winter Nocturne IV (creator of)
  • Night Vision VI (creator of)
  • Archipelago (creator of)
Related collections
  • Private collections (collected in)
  • Esk Collection, Tas. (collected in)
  • Tamar Collection, Launceston, Tas. (collected in)
  • Sydney Grammar School, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Pat Corrigan Collection (collected in)
  • Macquarie Bank, Sydney, Melbourne & London (collected in)
  • Derwent Collection, Tas. (collected in)
  • Artbank (collected in)
  • Museum Narodowe W Warsawie, Poland (collected in)
  • University of Technology, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW (collected in)
  • Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW (collected in)
  • Devonport Gallery & Arts Centre, Devonport, Tas. (collected in)
  • Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Campbelltown, NSW (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston, Tas. (collected in)
  • TarraWarra Museum & Art Gallery, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Glover Prize Tasmania (received)
  • 2007 : Winner, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (received)
  • Redlands Westpac Art Prize (received)
  • Redlands Westpac Art Prize (received)
  • Centenary Medals (received)
  • Commonwealth Law Courts (received)
  • Royal Women's Hospital (received)
  • Visual Arts & Craft Board Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, 'Illuminations' (received)
  • Sydney Grammar School Fellowship in Art (received)
  • 1993 : Visual Arts & Craft Board Project Grant, Australia Council for the Arts, 'Elevations' (received)
  • Festival of Fisher's Ghost Award (1st prize) (received)
  • 1990 : Art for Public Buildings Scheme, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, Hobart Project for Murray High School, 'Unknown Landscapes', Queenstown, Tas. (received)
Related events
  • Archibald, Wynne & Sulman Prize (exhibited at)
  • Vapour Trails (exhibited at)
  • From an Island South (exhibited at)
  • Night Visions (exhibited at)
  • Luminary Traces (exhibited at)
  • Salon (exhibited at)
  • Senses of Place: Art in Tasmania, 1970 - 2005 (exhibited at)
  • Australia and Constable (exhibited at)
  • Night Beacons (exhibited at)
  • Rhapsody 21C: Tasmanian Contemporary Art (exhibited at)
  • Great Escapes (exhibited at)
  • Noctiluca (exhibited at)
  • The Inner Edge (exhibited at)
  • Tidal (exhibited at)
  • Frank Saxby Acquisitions (exhibited at)
  • Shifting light (exhibited at)
  • Archipelago (exhibited at)
  • Painting Tasmanian Landscape (exhibited at)
  • Depth of Field (exhibited at)
  • high ground (exhibited at)
  • Winter Journeys (exhibited at)
  • Between Phenomena - The Panorama in Tasmania (exhibited at)
  • Aspects of Tasmanian Art (exhibited at)
  • Five Painters (exhibited at)
  • Redlands Westpac Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Liawenee Exploration (exhibited at)
  • converging planes (exhibited at)
  • Through the Landscape (exhibited at)
  • Cross Sections (exhibited at)
  • Surface Tension (exhibited at)
  • Leading the Way: 1997 - 98 Acquisitions Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Contemporary Australian Art from the Tamar Collection (exhibited at)
  • 1998 Redlands Westpac Art Prize (exhibited at)
  • Site and Sensibility: A Selection from the Artbank Collection (exhibited at)
  • Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Australian Perspecta: Between Art and Nature, Temple of Eart Memories (exhibited at)
  • Plateaux (exhibited at)
  • Six Level Seas and Four Recollections (exhibited at)
  • Flagging the Republic (exhibited at)
  • Brushing the Dark: Recent Art from Tasmania (exhibited at)
  • Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Illuminations (exhibited at)
  • Blundstone Contemporary Art Award (exhibited at)
  • Hidden Treasures; Art in Corporate Collections (exhibited at)
  • Vanishing Points (exhibited at)
  • The Artist's Garden (exhibited at)
  • Passages (exhibited at)
  • Elevations (exhibited at)
  • Illusory Fields, Series 2 (exhibited at)
  • Salon des Refuses (exhibited at)
  • Seven (exhibited at)
  • Festival of Fisher's Ghost Award (exhibited at)
  • Illusory Fields (exhibited at)
  • The Stages of Delirium (exhibited at)
  • The Path of Least Resistance (exhibited at)
  • The October Show (exhibited at)
  • 12th International Print Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Thinly Veiled Threats (exhibited at)