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MICHAEL SCHLITZ

Michael Schlitz is a young printmaker and graduate of the University of Southern Queensland. Born in Melbourne in 1967, 'his art frequently makes use of the landscape as a subject through which to make a broader comment on the natural and social environment'. - Sasha Grishin, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s (1997).

'In Michael’s large scale woodprints, he often depicts a solitary man seemingly trapped or encompassed by nature. They exude a dark melancholy which undermines any temptation to see the works as whimsical surrealism.

'His work is neither simplistically auto-biographic or didactic about his ideals and love of the environment that he lives in. It would be fairer to say that his work represents an extension of both his life and ideals.' - Simon Mee, University of Southern Queensland gallery curator.

HIs prints are hand burnished onto hand made Japanese Kozo paper. Kozo being a plant [Broussonetia kajinoki] which provides a paper that is used for its softness, sensitivity and absorbency in the traditional art of relief woodblock printing. Click on a work for more details and to shop