Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Upwey, Kelly' etching

Philippe Le Miere 'Study for Upwey, Kelly' etchingPhilippe Le Mieres Upwey, Kelly merges two famous works of Australian art Fred Williamss Upwey (1965) and Sidney Nolans Kelly and Rifle (1980). Williams painted Upwey after moving to the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in 1963, having recently returned from travelling Europe. He would head out bush, implanting the aesthetics of Gustav Courbet and Paul Cezanne onto the Australian landscape, producing exquisitely textual, near abstract compositions.

'Tsunamai (sic)' 2006

'Hand and leaf' circa 1965

this painting is a lucky find

what’s more is this universe is dappled with notalgia

'Himba Mother & Child

His rise within the contemporary art world has been meteoric

Dimensions: 140 x 102 cm

Considered the heir to the Heidelberg School

With warmth and wit

Dimensions: 47 x 58 x 4 cm

tinged by memories of his misspent youth

Victor Majzner once wrote that “Art makes the intangible visible”