Michael Philp: My Saltwater Murris

For Michael Philp, home is the Caldera – the land that stretches from beneath Wollumbin following the Tweed River down from Murwillumbah to Cudgen, Chinderah, Fingal and Duranbah and out to the ocean. The path of the river maps the home of his people. This latest series of paintings is a personal history, and represents his relationship with home and country.

The saltwater, the coast, its rivers and ocean all figure, not as a setting for the life of an individual or community, but as an actual working part of identity, personal and collective. The series is as much portrait as it is landscape. The simplicity of application together with bold expanses of pigment, reach a raw cadence of potent symbolism.

Mary Place Gallery
29 October to 10 November, 2013
Sydney

Pippying, 2013, acrylic on canvas, 90 x 122cm
Courtesy the artist

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