The Tide (Edition 4 of 7): from The Impact Series (Limited Edition Art Prints)

This edition of The Tide takes the figure from behind, sunk to the waist, her marked back and bowed head describing a body no longer resisting the pull of the water. The mud runs down her spine like a record of everything the ground has already taken. She faces away, up the dark channel of the gully, drawn toward something we cannot see.

Dole understands that the most frightening thing about an undertow is how quiet it is. There is no violence here, only the soft mathematics of a body going under by degrees, the losses of our age arriving not as a wave we can watch coming but as a slow drawing-down. Each edition is hand-signed and numbered by the artist and made to bring that pull, and its call for climate action, into your home.

DETAILS

Artwork The Tide 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.