Tom McAulay
Oils, Acrylics 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
2010
"Tom McAulay's Outback" exhibition
April
Chinchilla - White Gums Gallery
May
Longreach - Stockmans Hall of Fame
July
Maleny - Art on Cairncross
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"Tom McAulay's Outback"
Art on Cairncross, Maleny, July 3 - 31.
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“Outback Encounter”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 120cm
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“Emus, Winton Country”
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 90cm
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“The Final Furlong, Birdsville”
Acrylic on Board
58 x 90cm
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“Bungle Bungles”
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 120cm |
“Race Day, Almaden, N.Q.”
Acrylic on Board
29 x 39cm
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“The Boundary Riders”
Acrylic on Board
19 x 25cm
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“Across the Tanami I”
Acrylic on Board
19 x 25cm
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“Across the Tanami II”
Acrylic on Board
15 x 40cm
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“Stampede”
Acrylic on Canvas
75 x 102cm
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“The Branding Rail”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 90cm
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“Branding”
Acrylic on Board
30 x 30cm
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“The Working Dog”
Acrylic on Canvas
40 x 50cm
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“Hard at it”
Oil on Board
20 x 25cm
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“Arrival of the Mob, Lucky Downs”
Acrylic on Board
30 x 40cm
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“Drovers Moon”
Acrylic on Board
30 x 60cm
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“The Cooks Daughter”
Oil on Canvas
30 x 60cm
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“Back of Lucy's Pub, Mt. Garnet”
Oil on Canvas
30 x 61cm
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“Aboriginal Group, Turkey Creek”
Acrylic on Board
80 x 90cm
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“The Fringe Dwellers”
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 76cm
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“Some Country for Old Men”
Oil on Board
30 x 30cm
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“Dampers On”
Oil on Board
20 x 25cm
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“At the Outstation”
Oil on Board
20 x 25cm
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“Brolga Flight”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 90cm
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“Brolga Moondance”
Acrylic on Board
30 x 40cm
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“Ringer at Sugarbag Station”
Acrylic on Canvas
69 x 49cm
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“Camooweal Boys”
Acrylic on Canvas
45 x 45cm
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“Stockman Study II”
Oil on Board
17 x 12cm
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“Stockman Study I”
Oil on Board
17 x 12cm
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“To the Saddle Shed”
Sepia
28 x 20cm
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“Watching for Runaways”
Sepia
28 x 20cm
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“Watching the Mob”
Sepia
28 x 20cm
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“Swagman Study II”
Oil on Canvas
30 x 25cm
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“Hitting the Road”
Oil on Board
23 x 20cm
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“The Trusty Billy”
Oil on Board
25 x 20cm
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“Can you beat a Full House?”
Oil on Board
30 x 40cm
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“Lofty Pots a Red”
Oil on Board
25 x 30cm
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“One for the Road”
Oil on Board
20 x 25cm
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“Stagecoach”
Oil on Board
30 x 25cm
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“The Whip”
Oil on Board
25 x 20cm
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“Ploughing the Top Paddock”
Oil on Board
20 x 25cm
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“The Rainmaker”
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 90cm
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“Carpenteria Phoenix”
Acrylic on Board
90 x 120cm
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“Purnululu Spirit”
Acrylic on Board
90 x 120cm
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“Refuge for Jandamarra”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 90cm
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“Grass Owls, Mt. Carbine”
Acrylic on Board
60 x 90cm
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“Bush Sentinel”
Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 70cm
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“Bringing in the Heifers”
Acrylic on Board
39 x 46cm
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“The Breakaway”
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 60cm
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“Burke and Wills return from the Gulf”
Acrylic on Board
25 x 29cm
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“Skirting the Mob”
Acrylic on Board
13 x 45cm
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“Kite Flying”
Acrylic on Board
20 x 30cm
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“Too tired to Walk”
Charcoal
67 x 48cm
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“Short Break”
Charcoal
48 x 67cm
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“Still Working”
Acrylic on Board
26 x 20cm
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“Granny Soare”
Acrylic on Board
26 x 20cm
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“Learning the Ropes”
Pen and Wash
36 x 24cm
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“Smoko, Sugarbag Station”
Pen and Wash
36 x 24cm
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“Breaking Camp”
Pen and Wash
21 x 16cm
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“In Partnership”
Charcoal
30 x 20cm approx.
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“A Watchful Eye”
Charcoal
39 x 28cm approx.
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“Resting Up”
Oil on Board
24 x 19cm
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“Washing Day”
Oil on Board
20 x 25cm
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“Toby”
Oil on Board
16 x 12cm
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“Horsebreaker Study”
Oil on Board
16 x 12cm
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Horse racing paintings
“Return to Scale, Cairns Amateurs”
Acrylic on Board
35 x 45cm
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“Picnic Races, Laura”
Acrylic on Canvas
20 x 25cm
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“Return to Scale”
Acrylic on Board
45 x 30cm
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“Jockey with Whip”
Acrylic on Board
45 x 30cm
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“Beach Workout”
Acrylic on Board
30 x 40cm
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“Behind the Barrier”
Acrylic on Canvas
25 x 20cm
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“Winners Salute”
Acrylic on Paper
36 x 19cm
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“Jockey on No. 7”
Acrylic on Canvas
25 x 20cm
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