“My current art comes from leafing through old Kininmonth family photo albums that document life on Mt Hesse, Nangana and the surrounding friends and family's stations around the time of WWI. I've selected small black & white 'contact' prints and re-cropped them, adding colour and, often, new backgrounds. All my art these days is in a square format as I like the less traditional look and it saves deciding what shape picture to paint!“
Phil Kininmonth, 2021
Philip Kininmonth was born at Colac in the Western District in 1953 and grew up at his parents’ sheep station, ‘Nangana’ at Ombersley. He completed a Diploma of Design at the Gordon Institute of Technology, Geelong, in 1974, specialising in Graphic Design and made his career of 37 years as an art director and creative director in Melbourne advertising agencies.
He paints in oils and acrylics as well as drawing in pencil and ink. He has held one solo exhibition: ‘Four Seasons on a Mountain Stream’, at Thornton in 2006, and also exhibited in group shows including Linden Postcard Show, St Kevins Art Show, Birregurra Festival Art Show and Corangamarah Art Prize.
Philip has exhibited works at Green-Wood Gallery, Melbourne; Qdos Arts, Lorne; and S&J Framing workshop, Prahran. He has painted a number of landscape and portrait commissions, while his fly fishing art has been published in Gray’s Sporting Journal, USA.
e: philkinin@netspace.net.au
