Philip Hunter (1958-2017), painter, studied art in Melbourne before holding his first solo exhibition there in 1982. More than twenty solo shows, and many more group exhibitions followed. Restricting his palette to earth colours and white, he produced a body of large, layered, visually dense paintings in which, according to curator Peter Haynes, 'the viewer is an actual witness to the artist's processes, to the selection of motifs, 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.' Hunter's works are held by the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria as well as regional galleries and corporate collections.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2006
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Julian Kingma (6 portraits)
On one level The Companion talks about the most famous and frontline Australians, but on another it tells us about ourselves.
Penelope Grist explores the photographic instinct of four-time National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist Julian Kingma.
Photographer Julian Kingma describes his style of quiet portraiture that captures the spaces in between big gestures.
