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Tom McAulay
Oils and Drawing
Born: Innisfail, North Queensland.
Resides: North of Brisbane, Queensland.
Artist Information
Tom McAulay was born in Innisfail in North Queensland. He studied art under both Arthur Evan Read and Andrew Sibley, but it was his own observations of life around him that have inspired most of his work.
His early rural life and later travels around Australia laid the foundations for his portrayal of subjects such as the Outback, vast landscapes and birdlife, characters of the Bush and from the Far North, or country race tracks. Years of Brisbane living brought new material form the suburbs and especially the sports of football, cricket and boxing which started to feature in many paintings. But it is still for his wonderful portrayals of stockyard characters that Tom is probably best known.
Most of the stockmen series are studies in pen and wash or charcoal, but Tom is equally adept at working with oils, acrylics and gouache and has always risen to the challenge of a new medium. His journeying has taken him across many areas of Australia to meet all manner of people and he recalls Kakadu and the Kimberley region with much fondness.
In a career that has spanned nearly 40 years, Tom McAulay has won innumerable awards including Warana Brisbane (1969), Caltex Award Toowoomba (1973) and the Heritage Art Award conducted by the Queensland Historical Society.
In 1990 Tom was commissioned by the then Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, to complete a series of paintings of Australians in sport and in 2000 he was the selected Queensland artist represented in the "Sports in Art" exhibition held in Adelaide.
Tom, like most artists, paints as an expression of feeling about a subject, but he continues to work hard at his chosen profession. He does not seek the limelight, despite hugely successful exhibitions over the years in major galleries in Brisbane, Melbourne, Cairns, Toowoomba, Sydney and Darwin.
His quintessential Australian paintings and drawings are to be found in public and private collections in Australia and worldwide
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Below are a selection of the artists work:
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“The Lizard Hunt, Tibooburra”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 91cm
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“Aboriginal Group, Turkey Creek, WA”
Acrylic on Board
80 x 90cm
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“Drovers Camp, Gregory River”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 90cm
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“Goat Herders, McIvors Creek”
Acrylic on canvas
36 x 46cm
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“Old Farm House, Mt. Crosby”
Acrylic on Board
36 x 45cm
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“Emu Parade”
Acrylic on Board
30 x 56cm
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“Camooweal”
Acrylic on Board
44 x 60cm
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“Evening at Dingo Rock”
Acrylic on Canvas
85 x 92cm
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“Riding the Tail, Canning Track”
Acrylic on Canvas
44 x 44cm
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“Winners Salute”
Acrylic on Paper
36 x 19cm
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“Stationhand, Mungana”
Acrylic on Board
34 x 26cm
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“Smoko, Sugarbag Station”
Pen and Wash
36 x 24cm
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“Learning the Ropes”
Pen and Wash
36 x 24cm
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“Breaking Camp”
Pen and Wash
21 x 16cm
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“Eye on the Herd”
Charcoal
76 x 56cm
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“Saddle Up, Sugarbag Station”
Charcoal
76 x 56cm
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“Whipping Them In”
Charcoal
30 x 20cm approx.
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“In Partnership”
Charcoal
30 x 20cm approx.
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“Tools of the Trade”
Charcoal
30 x 20cm approx.
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“Lasso”
Charcoal
30 x 20cm approx.
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“Off to Work”
Charcoal
52 x 33cm
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“Smoko at the Yards”
Charcoal
52 x 33cm
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“Taking a Breather”
Charcoal
52 x 33cm
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“Saddlebags”
Charcoal
52 x 33cm
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“Ringer, Sugarbag Station”
Charcoal
52 x 33cm
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“Return to Scale”
Acrylic on Board
45 x 29cm |
“Jockey with Whip”
Acrylic on Board
45 x 29cm |
“Bungle Bungles”
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 120cm |
“Bill the Bookie”
Acrylic on canvas
25 x 20cm |
“Jockey, Doomben I”
Acrylic on canvas
25 x 20cm |
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