{"title":"From Artist Michael Dole","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-calling-original-painting-by-michael-dole","title":"The Calling","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist Michael Dole’s \u003cem\u003eThe Calling\u003c\/em\u003e (2025) is a haunting centrepiece from \u003cstrong\u003eThe Hostage Series\u003c\/strong\u003e – a body of work born from the idea that “when you have a child, the world has a hostage.” Painted in acrylic on wood (100cm x 70cm), a child’s face floats between sky and sea, eyes closed, hair adrift, suspended in an endless field of deep, shifting blues. It is at once serene and unsettling, a quiet plea from a generation bound to a planet they did not shape, yet will inherit in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere, personal health and planetary health are inseparable – breath tied to atmosphere, blood to water, light to temperature. \u003cem\u003eThe Calling\u003c\/em\u003e gives that connection a human face, inviting the viewer to feel the urgency of climate change not as an abstract graph, but as the future lungs trying to breathe beneath its surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMICHAEL DOLE\u003cbr\u003e'The Calling' 2025\u003cbr\u003eAcrylic on wood\u003cbr\u003e100cm x 70 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e(A part of the Hostage Series 2025 - Present)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE ARTIST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist Michael Dole is a rare hybrid of director, filmmaker and artist whose practice has unfolded over more than three decades and across four continents. Now based in the Byron Bay Hinterland, he moves fluently between set and studio, allowing each discipline to infect the other. His films carry the stillness and compositional rigour of painting, while his paintings feel charged with the tempo, rhythm and emotional cadence of cinema. The result is a body of work preoccupied less with spectacle than with the subtle pressure points of lived experience – the quiet, often overlooked moments where a life tilts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCritically, Dole’s work resists cynicism. Whether he is collaborating with global musicians or developing intimate fine art series, his focus remains on the inter lives of people and the worlds they inhabit. Exhibiting locally and internationally, and increasingly mentoring the next generation of image-makers, he uses each project as an inquiry into how we see and how we are seen. At the core of his practice is a insightful, demanding ambition. To create work that meets people where they are, tells the truth about being human and stays with you long after you have walked away.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSHIPPING \u0026amp; DELIVERY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll artworks are shipped from the Byron Bay Hinterland, Australia, securely packed and fully insured in transit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin Australia we offer a flat \u003cstrong\u003eStandard Shipping\u003c\/strong\u003e rate of \u003cstrong\u003e$50 AUD\u003c\/strong\u003e, with delivery generally \u003cstrong\u003e2 to 8 business days\u003c\/strong\u003e from dispatch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor customers outside Australia, \u003cstrong\u003eStandard International\u003c\/strong\u003e shipping is available at a flat rate of \u003cstrong\u003e$150 AUD\u003c\/strong\u003e, with delivery typically \u003cstrong\u003e5 to 9 business days\u003c\/strong\u003e from dispatch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou will receive tracking details as soon as your artwork leaves the studio so you can follow its journey to you.\u003cem\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternational customers are responsible for any local customs duties or taxes that may apply in their country.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daughter Collective","offers":[{"title":"Not framed","offer_id":51061692236071,"sku":null,"price":11600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Framed","offer_id":51061692268839,"sku":null,"price":12200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9987\/3575\/files\/MichaelDole_TheCalling_FineArt_Insitu_1x1_01.jpg?v=1771974862"},{"product_id":"the-calling-art-prints-by-the-artist-michael-dole","title":"The Calling (Limited Edition Art Prints)","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"13\" data-end=\"553\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"13\" data-end=\"26\"\u003eThe Calling\u003c\/em\u003e Limited Edition Art Print offers a collectible piece from Michael Dole’s ongoing \u003cstrong data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"126\"\u003eHostage Series\u003c\/strong\u003e. Taken from the original 2025 painting, this work shows a child’s face suspended between sky and sea, eyes closed, drifting in deep, shifting blues. It is both calm and unsettling – a quiet plea from the children of our planet, whose futures are tied to the health of the earth itself. 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Turned away from us, her back is articulated in faceted planes of light and shadow, more sculpted than strictly anatomical. Waves of hair fall towards a band of saturated blue, the skirt acting almost as an anchoring field of colour amid the softer mauves, greys and aquas that dissolve the background into something between wall, weather and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"925\" data-start=\"523\"\u003eBy withholding the figure’s gaze, Dole shifts the work from likeness into something more psychologically charged. \u003cem data-end=\"642\" data-start=\"637\"\u003eOne\u003c\/em\u003e suggests solitude without loneliness; a moment of self-possession, of being fully inside one’s own thoughts, with the world kept politely at arm’s length. 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Dole refuses to tidy this up or make it pretty. Instead, he offers a quiet indictment of a culture that would rather police women’s outlines than confront the systems making them sick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1225\"\u003eSUMMARY\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1227\" data-end=\"1674\"\u003eArtist Michael Dole’s \u003cem data-start=\"1249\" data-end=\"1255\"\u003eLost\u003c\/em\u003e is a raw early work that confronts bulimia, body politics and the damage done when outside expectations are swallowed whole. A single seated figure, turned away from us, becomes a stand-in for anyone who has been measured and found wanting by someone else’s scale. 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The woman clings to herself because the world keeps asking her to be both subject and object, to perform confidence while quietly dismantling herself to fit the frame. Depression here does not appear as melodrama but as heaviness in the limbs, a slumped spine, a gaze that never quite meets ours. Dole refuses to give us a neat empowerment arc. Instead he holds up a mirror to a society that has turned self absorption into a survival strategy, then has the nerve to blame individuals for drowning in their own reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1643\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1390\" data-end=\"1402\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e is a painting that does not look away and does not let the viewer look away either. 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Blurring the line between intimacy and performance, the painting exposes the illusion, obsession and quiet despair that sit beneath the glossy rhetoric of confidence and body positivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr data-start=\"2034\" data-end=\"2037\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-start=\"2039\" data-end=\"2052\"\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2395\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2054\" data-end=\"2082\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2082\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2056\" data-end=\"2066\"\u003eArtist\u003c\/strong\u003e: Michael Dole\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2110\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2085\" data-end=\"2110\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2085\" data-end=\"2094\"\u003eTitle\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem data-start=\"2096\" data-end=\"2108\"\u003eThe Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2111\" data-end=\"2129\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2129\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2113\" data-end=\"2121\"\u003eYear\u003c\/strong\u003e: 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2130\" data-end=\"2163\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2163\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2132\" data-end=\"2142\"\u003eMedium\u003c\/strong\u003e: Acrylic on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2195\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2195\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2166\" data-end=\"2180\"\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: 91cm x 61cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2196\" data-end=\"2234\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2198\" data-end=\"2234\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2198\" data-end=\"2209\"\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e: Unique original (1\/1)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2235\" data-end=\"2265\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2265\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2252\"\u003eOrientation\u003c\/strong\u003e: Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2266\" data-end=\"2315\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2315\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2268\" data-end=\"2281\"\u003eSignature\u003c\/strong\u003e: Signed and dated by the artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-start=\"2316\" data-end=\"2395\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2395\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2318\" data-end=\"2329\"\u003eFraming\u003c\/strong\u003e: Supplied unframed, ready for custom framing to suit your space\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Daughter Collective","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51079092994343,"sku":null,"price":8400.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9987\/3575\/files\/MichaelDole_TheMirror_Painting_2017_Insitu_1x1_01.jpg?v=1772239738"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.daughtercollective.com\/collections\/from-artist-michael-dole.oembed","provider":"Daughter Collective","version":"1.0","type":"link"}