The Hidden (Edition 1 of 5) Limited Edition Art Prints

The Hidden - Edition 01 is a collectible limited edition print from Michael Dole's Impact Series. Drawn from the original 2026 work, this piece shows a lone figure at the summit of scorched volcanic rock, her face turned from us, releasing a long ribbon of water-blue silk that spills down the dead red stone toward the sea. What she carries flows away from her and out of reach, a study of the living water we are quietly letting slip.

It is both serene and unsettling. The face is always hidden, and so is the cost. 

DETAILS

Artwork The Hidden 2026
Artist Michael Dole
Medium Fine art print on archival stock
Editions (hand-signed and numbered)
297 x 210 mm (A4), limited to 25 (1 of 25 to 25 of 25)
420 x 297 mm (A3), limited to 25 (1 of 25 to 25 of 25)
594 x 420 mm (A2), limited to 5 (1 of 5 to 5 of 5)
1189 x 841 mm (A0), unique single work (1 of 1)
Framing Available framed or unframed
Source work Original artwork, The Impact Series (2026)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Michael Dole belongs to that rare lineage of artists for whom the made image is less a record than a divining rod, a means of locating the fault lines beneath the visible world. Across three decades and four continents, moving between the film set and the studio, he has built a practice that refuses the easy separation of the beautiful and the urgent. His work does not depict crisis. It lets you feel the ground shift under it. Now working from the Byron Bay Hinterland, he treats landscape not as backdrop but as body, something that breathes, erodes, and remembers.

The Impact Series is the fullest expression of this sensibility. Whether drawing a ribbon of blue silk across scorched volcanic rock or lowering a figure into a pool held in the forest floor, Dole returns again and again to a single idea, that the environmental reckoning of our age is not loud. It is intimate, unglamorous, and largely unseen, a slow subtraction we register only once it is nearly complete. The figure is present but always turned away, her face withheld, a refusal that turns the viewer from spectator into witness.

Exhibiting locally and internationally and increasingly mentoring a new generation of artists, Dole makes work that meets you where you stand and then, gently, moves the floor. These are not pictures of a wounded earth so much as meditations on our relationship to it, on tenderness, complicity, and the fragile filaments that still bind us to a living world. They ask very little of you, and everything. Simply that you do not look away.