Bio
1947 - 2010 |
Born Rockhampton, Queensland. Died in Herberton, Far North Queensland. |
Individual Exhibitions
1981 | Fabrications - Martin Gallery, Townsville |
1982 | Sculpture - Ray Hughes Gallery - Downtown at 123 Charlotte Street, Brisbane |
1983 | Collage - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
1984 | Installation with 16m3 of Foam - College Gallery - BCAE Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane |
1985 | Car Bonnet Cut-outs - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1986 | Recycled Queenslanders - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
1987 | Furniture - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
1987 | Collage, Bas Relief - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1988 | Sculpture-Works from central western Queensland the North - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
1989 | Chairs - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1989 | Still Life and other Compositional Considerations - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane |
1990 | Further Concern with Still Life and Composition - Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand |
1990 | Drawings - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1991 | Another Aspect of Still Life and Composition - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1991 | Chairs - Townsville Regional Art Gallery, Queensland |
1991 | Chairs - Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland |
1992 | Still Life - Another Option - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1992 | The Indigenous Object and the Urban 0ffcast - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane |
1993 | Paintings and Drawings of Still Life - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1994 | 982 Trasparenze d'Artea Venezia, Zitelle - Cultural Centre,Venice, Italy |
1994 | Still Life - About Drawing - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1996 | Painterly Concerns - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1997 | Stories About Things - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
1998 | The Oceania Suite and Landscapes - Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland |
1998 | Queensland Landscapes - Ray Hughes Gallery, Queensland |
2000 | Still Life and Landscapes - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
2004 | Stories About Landscapes - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
2005 | Tom Risley - Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland |
2005 | Flags - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
2007 | Family Crests - Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
2007 | Tablets - Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane |
2008 | Tom Risley: 8 Still Lifes 1982 - 2008: An Overview, KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns Queensland. |
2009 2012 2012 |
Still Life with Paint, Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane.. Last and Recent Works: KickArts Contemporary Arts, Cairns. Queensland. Last and Recent Works: Perc Tucker Gallery , Townsville. |
Including:
1990 | Further Concerns With Still Life & Composition - Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand (15 Dec - 14 Feb) |
1992 | The Indigenous Object & The Urban Offcast - Survey Exhibition. QAG. Brisbane |
1994 |
982 Trasparenze D'artea Venezia - Zietelle Cultural Centre Venice (5 May - 9 May) |
Selected Group Exhibitions
1981 | Australian Sculpture Triennials - 1981,1984,1987,1990. |
1982 | Sculpture '82 - Commonwealth Games Festival Brisbane. |
1984 | Appositions - BCAE Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane. |
1985 | Trios Australiens - Peter Cole, Andrew Dunstone & Tom Risley Gallerie Boudoin Lebon, Paris. The First Exhibition - Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney. Queensland/Works - 1950-85,University of Queensland Art Museum Brisbane Curated Nancy Underhill Six New Directions - Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane. Australian Perspecta '85 - Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney(Curated by Tony Bond) |
1987 | Painters & Sculptors-Diversity In Australian Art - Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane. Travelling to Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan(Curated by Michael Sourgnes) Contemporary Art In Australia-A Review; Museum Contemporary Art Brisbane (18 July Curated James Baker) Seven Queensland Artists - Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education Toowoomba (8-30 Sept) A New Romance - University Drill Hall, Australian National University Canberra (12 Sep- 15Nov Curated by John McPhee) |
1988 | Artists For Another Biennale - Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney. Gallery Maki - Tokyo Japan with Joe Furlonger & R J Morris. Seventeen Australian Artists - Galleria San Vidal Venice (Organised by Ray Hughes on Behalf of Richard Ellis World Wide to coincide with the Venice Biennale) Creating Australia - The Great Australian Art Exhibition(Curated by Daniel Thomas) Toured to all major galleries) The New Generation - Australian National Gallery, Canberra.(4 Jun - 17 Jul) |
1989 | Adelaide Biennale - Art Gallery South Australia Adelaide. (Curated by Mary Eagle) Delineations Exploring Drawing - Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney (Curated by Louise Pether) |
1990 | Twenty Australian Artists - Gallery San Vidal, Venice; Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Benalla Regional Art Gallery Victoria, Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney. Into Space - The Language of Sculpture,Queensland Art Gallery, touring regional Queensland (Curated by D.Burnett). |
1991 | Thinking Aloud - Drawing exhibition Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney. |
1995 | Australia Felix - Benalla Victoria. |
1999 | A Century Of Collecting - Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney |
2000 | Against the Grain - Australian Sculptural Furniture. Brisbane City gallery. |
2001 | Tokyo Designers Block - Tokyo |
2002 | Gallery Artists - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney |
2003 | Beneath the Monsoon - Visions North of Capricorn. Mackay, Cairns & Townsville. Curated by Gavin Wilson. |
2005 | 'Project Show' - University Art Museum. U.Q. Brisbane. |
2007 | 'Our Way' - Contemporary Art from Lockhart River. University Art Museum. U.Q. Brisbane. |
2007 | The Eutick Memorial Still Life Award: Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, NSW |
2009 | Twelve Degrees of Latitude: Regional Gallerie & University Art Collections in Qld. Travelling to Regional 7 university galleries, Qld. |
2009 | Reinventions: National Gallery Canberra, ACT. |
Collections
- National Gallery Australia
- QLD Art Gallery
- NSW Art Gallery
- Nat. Gallery Vic
- Art Gallery SA
- Art Gallery WA
- Metropolitan Museum of Art N.Y
- Auckland City Art Gallery
- Chartwell Collection N.Z.
- Joseph Brown Collection Melb
- Laverty Collection Sydney
- Gold Coast City Gallery
- Qld. State Library Brisbane
- Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville
- Mt. Gambier Regional Gallery SA
- Cairns Regional Art Gallery
- James Baker Collection
- Parliament House Canberra construction authority
- Artbank Sydney
- Brisbane College of Advanced Education
- Centre of Contemporary Art
- Ipswich Regional Gallery
- Hamilton. New Zealand
Awards
1982, 1985, 1991, 1993 | VACB Grants |
1996 | Stanalite Travelling Fellowship |
Commissions
Totem | QLD Government Gift to New Parliament House Canberra. Malanda Commission Eacham Shire Council. FNQ. |
Selected Bibliography
Bock, Anna | Sculpture display at Tucker Gallery Townsville Advertiser, 26 November 1981. |
First Australian Sculpture Triennial Committee Melbourne, 1981, p.152. |
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Howard, Lenore | Sculpture show for Townsville Cairns Post, 13 November 1981, pp.5, 7 |
Langer, Gertrude | Three still-lifes in shape Courier-Mail, 29 October 1982. |
Langer, Gertrude | He turns rubbish into art Courier-Mail, 11 October 1983. |
Langer, Gertrude | Tom takes a leaf from Johns' book Courier-Mail, 26 June 1984. |
Ford, 1 | Tom Risley in Appositions [exhibition. catalogue] Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, 1984. |
Marcus, Will | Australian Perspecta '85 [exhibition catalogue] Ed. Anthony Bond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, p.54. |
Jarrett, Bunny | Tom takes on Paris North Queensland Register, 17 January 1985, p.21 |
Lynn, Elwyn | Favourites, censors and other monsters November 1985, Weekend Australian Magazine, p.13. |
Follent, Sarah | Tom Risley: Turning rubbish into fine objects The Australian, 19 May 1986. |
Massy, John | Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art Exhibition Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987, p.44. |
Allen, Christopher | War of desire Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June 1988 |
Art Gallery of South Australia | Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988 [exhibition catalogue] Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1988, p.205. |
Lynn, Elwyn | Armchair aesthetics Weekend Australian Magazine, 27-28 May, 1989 |
Beenstock, Sue | Artist confronts himself and life Tablelander, 5 June 1990, p.2. |
Steven Rainbird | The Art and Environment of Tom Risley Art & Australia, vol.28 no.4, Spring 1990, pp.84-89 |
Burnett, David | Into Space: The Language of Sculpture [exhibition catalogue] Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1990, pp.10, 13 |
Edwards, Geoffrey | A consideration of some new sculpture from Australia, Europe and Japan in Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial [exhibition catalogue] Ed. Helen Chamberlin, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1990, pp.59, 91. |
Daniel Thomas | Tom Risley in Tom Risley: Further Concern with Still Life and Composition Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery 1990, np |
McCullough, Tom (ed.) | The First Australian Sculpture Triennial [exhibition catalogue] |
Atherton Nye | Tom Risley in Mary Eagle et al. 1990 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia 1990, pp.70-71 |
Daniel Thomas | Tom Risley in Tom Risley: Further Concern with Still Life and Composition Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery 1990, np |
Ross Searle | Artist in the Tropics: 200 Years of Art in North Queensland Townsville: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery 1991, pp.55-56 |
Graeme Sturgeon | Contemporary Australian Sculpture Sydney: Craftsman House 1991, pp.83-86 |
Catherine Hunter | Channel 9, Sunday Program, Documentary: Tom Risley Artist 1992 |
Doug Hall | Tom Risley: The Indigenous Object & the Urban Offcast Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery 1992 (exhibition catalogue) |
Louise Martin | Chew - Getting on THE BUS (Profiles an artist whose sculpture is unfailingly original, shaped by a guiding intellect which continually seeks new boundaries.) Country Style October 1993 |
Brendan O'Malley | Chairman of the Board Courier-Mail, I I March 1998, p.36 |
Susan Owens | Domestic Bliss - Art Attack The Sun - Herald - Tempo July 19,1998 |
Sebastian Smee | Artist abandons rubbish that goes for a thong Tom Risley New Work. The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, March 25, 2000` |
Michael Reid | The shaping of big things to come - Sculpture is no longer the neglected art medium “(The absolute blue-chip names in Australian contemporary sculpture such as - Tom Risley...)” The Weekend Australian - August 3 - 4, 2002. |
Gavin Wilson | Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn Mackay: Artspace Mackay 2002, pp.29-3 I |
Melinda Hall | Footprints from Another World Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 April 2004, p.3 |
Steven Tonkin | Tom Risley. First Impressions ...and Second Thoughts about Tom Risley Cairns Regional art Gallery 2005 |
ABC | Painting Australia Series March/April 2007 |
Steven Tonkin | Looking Closer in order to Further: 'Still Life with Paint' Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane. 2009. |