Philip Wolfhagen b. 1967

Words are a very important part of the creative process for me. The image always comes first but immediately it comes into existence there is a need for a name....

50 Artists. 50 Years. water[shed] is an exhibition conceived by OUTSIDE THE BOX / Earth Arts Rights and presented in collaboration with Bett Gallery to support the Restore Pedder campaign....

Philip Wolfhagen studied at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart from 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1987 before moving to Sydney, where he studied at the Sydney College...

I am working on two streams of ideas concurrently for the show. The first is the continued development of austere alpine landscapes. My interest in these paintings is the underlying...

“As I looked at the extraordinary objects I was passing, I thought of ‘the little world’ which men carry about inside their heads. …However strange and unexpected the prospect before...

The introduction of more developed foregrounds in my paintings began in the spring of 2008. The impetus for this was twofold; a desire for more compositional complexity in my paintings,...

To be confronted with a room full of John Constable’s oil sketches, as I was in March last year, is to be at once exhilarated and intimidated. What breathtaking freshness...