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Cast bronze
Acquired 2007
Angel presents a poised, forward-leaning figure cast in bronze, its weight and gesture creating a sense of motion held in suspension. The work’s textured surface and compact form sit quietly within the landscape, encouraging visitors to walk around it and observe how light softens or sharpens the figure’s contours across the day.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Phillip Doggett-Williams
Phillip Doggett-Williams is a Melbourne-based artist working across sculpture, painting and printmaking. His practice weaves together personal narrative, history, mythology and reflections on the physical and metaphysical worlds. His works are grounded in deep material knowledge and a lifelong engagement with the natural world.
Doggett-Williams’ work emerges from close observation and long familiarity with diverse environments, from the Australian bush to Antarctica and the Arabian Gulf. His sculptures explore human presence, memory, spirituality and our connection to place. He often works in series, allowing ideas to grow, shift and accumulate meaning over time. Across sculpture, painting and printmaking, his practice balances expressive mark-making with precise technical understanding, shaped by influences including classical myths, Australian fauna, Indigenous culture, and global political histories.
A constant thread in his work is the figure, used as a vessel for psychological states and emotional resonance. Doggett-Williams also draws on archaeological forms, ritual objects and mythic archetypes, using them to explore themes of mortality, transcendence, conflict and reconciliation. His materials often mirror these ideas: bronze for its permanence, paper for its fragility, and pigments that evoke earth, body and landscape.
SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Exhibited across Australia and internationally, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States
Represented by William Mora Galleries for over four decades
Awarded a three-month residency in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2015), creating works responding to Bedouin culture and desert landscapes
Travelling to Antarctica in 2000, a pivotal journey informing subsequent sculptures and drawings
Completed numerous public and private commissions, including large-scale outdoor sculptures
Work held in major collections including Parliament House Collection Canberra, ArtBank, La Trobe University Museum of Art, City of Melbourne and many private Australian collections
DOGGETT-WILLIAMS AT MONTALTO
Angel was created and acquired in 2007, joining the Sculpture Trail as one of Doggett-Williams’ quietly resonant figurative works. The sculpture reflects his long-standing interest in the human form as a symbolic and emotive presence. Positioned within a natural pocket of the estate, Angel invites contemplation and demonstrates how the artist’s bronze figures often act as guardians, sentinels or watchers within a landscape. Its robust form and gentle forward momentum echo the deeper spiritual and mythological concerns that underpin Doggett-Williams’ broader practice.
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