Last week, we cut off the tapestry 'Salt Creep with Fence No. 2' by Philip Hunter. Widely regarded as one of Australia’s most significant landscape painters, Philip Hunter developed a body of large-scale, layered and visually dense paintings using a restrained palette of earth tones. It has been a privilege to translate this work into tapestry under the guidance of Vera Möller, the late Philip Hunter’s widow.

This tapestry took over 2,450 hours to weave over the past nine months by ATW's skilled team of weavers, led by Emma Sulzer, alongside Saffron Gordon, Pamela Joyce, Cheryl Thornton and Dr Caroline Tully.

ATW's two dye specialists, Tony Stefanovski and Heather Thomas, created the 81 colours used in the tapestry, including one custom colour, ‘Hunter Brown’, and 15 botanically dyed colours derived from local eucalyptus varieties.

'Salt Creep with Fence No. 2' enters the Shepparton Art Museum (SAM) Collection as the first major textile acquisition in its history, and visitors can expect to see it on display in late 2026.

This project is generously supported by AWM Electrical.