Michael Schlitz: The Well in the Waterhole
Contemporary folk tales from a dystopian world view, these images are stories of loss, failure and hope.
Michael Schlitz is an award-winning Tasmanian artist best known for his masterfully hand-cut woodblock prints on Japanese (Kozo) paper. Though remarkably distinct, Michael’s work remains difficult to describe; uncaptured by language, his images are as sure and as fleeting as shadows. Light moves through Michael’s line work the way it does through the tree canopy, across the surface of water, or over ridges in sand. Though the images are darkened by detail and heavy with ink, they’re infinitely light, impossibly materially transient. There is a total surrender of figure to ground, as if temporally the body moves as landscape —rippling amongst— in a kind of longing for a consumption by earth, by darkness, or by another. There is a magical weightlessness in such confident mark-making, a swiftness of hand, a heaviness of humour and a softness of hope.
Michael is a past winner of both the prestigious Hutchins Art Prize as well as the Rick Amor Print Prize. He has exhibited throughout Australia, in China and the United Kingdom. His work can be found in the collections of the Australian National Gallery, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Art Gallery of South Australia, Queensland Art Gallery and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, as well as numerous private and university collections. Since 1997, Michael has held positions lecturing in drawing and printmaking at the University of Tasmania, RMIT, The Australian National University and the University of Southern Queensland.
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Michael SchlitzTake Care Beloved, 2022woodcut on kozo paper130 x 202 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 4,400.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzThe Short Weight, 2023woodcut on kozo paper125 x 92 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 3,000.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzAtlas seeking home, 2023woodcut on kozo paper125 x 92 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 3,000.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzCatching and Dropping the Ball, 2021woodcut on kozo paper65 x 97 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 2,200.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzA Woman Wove an Ocean, 2022woodcut on kozo paper65 x 99 cmEdition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofsAU$ 2,200.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzAnahita and the Shell, 2022woodcut on kozo paper66 x 99 cmEdition of 10AU$ 2,200.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzSitting on Thin Air Two Right Feet, 2021woodcut on kozo paper66 x 99 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 2,200.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzSpoken Not Heard, 2022woodcut on kozo paper65 x 98 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 2,200.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzThe Denier, 2021woodcut on kozo paper64 x 99 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 2,200.00 + FRAMING
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Michael Schlitz1000 Days Rest, 2023woodcut on kozo paper57 x 73 cmEdition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofsAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzDarkness Eating Itself, 2022woodcut on kozo paper57 x 73 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzLonely Tyrant, 2022woodcut on kozo paper56 x 73 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzOne Hole to Another in a Sun Shower, 2023woodcut on kozo paper57 x 73 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzSomewhere in the Middle of Somewhere, 2023woodcut on kozo paper56 x 73 cmEdition of 10AU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzString Game, 2023woodcut on kozo paper56 x 73 cmEdition of 10 plus 2 artist's proofsAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzTangled Fossicker, 2023woodcut on kozo paper57 x 73 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzThe Well in the Waterhole, 2023woodcut on kozo paper57 x 73 cmEdition of 10AU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzUp and Down Down and Up, 2023woodcut on kozo paper55 x 73 cmedition of 10 plus 2 artist proofAU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING
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Michael SchlitzWind Speaker, 2022woodcut on kozo paper57 x 73 cmEdition of 10AU$ 1,750.00 + FRAMING