Outback Walkabout
Sarah Larsen
Jim Kinch
Tom McAulay
Stockmans Hall of Fame, Longreach
July 30 to September 25,2011
Artist Information.
Sarah Larsen
Mixed media
Born: Nairobi, Kenya
Resides: Central Queensland
Artist Information
Sarah Larsen was born in Nairobi and was educated between Kenya and the UK and then travelled extensively after leaving school before settling in Australia in 1975. She has lived in Central Queensland with her husband on their property for many years and is able to once again focus on her art since their 3 children became adults. The influences of her different life experiences and especially her close understanding of the land are the basis of her vibrant artworks. Sarah paints in many media according to the subject and required effect and has recently incorporated gemstones into her paintings giving a third dimension and realistic definition to her landscapes.
"My art stems from a love and fascination for the colour and feel of the people and the land around me and my place in it. My endeavour is to capture the innate essence and spirit of life, not simply creating a mirror image. Predominantly working on paper and canvas, my favourite medium is mixed media but I will use whatever the subject dictates."
Sarah was awarded a scholarship to attend the Julian Ashton Art School in 1995. She has continued her art studies through workshops with such artists as Andrew Sibley, Tim Storrier, Irene Amos and Judith White in the areas of portraiture, contemporary figure drawing and exploring mixed media. She has also studied at TAFE a computer course (1996), Workplace Trainer (1999) and for a Certificate in Business (1999) all of which have given an even broader base for her teaching skills.
Sarah has also been involved in many group and award exhibitions as well as over 11 solo exhibitions and was selected as an exhibitor in the Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy in 2003. She was also awarded the Callide Coalfields Julian Ashton Art Scholarship in 1994/5 and 1998/9.
Sarah continues to teach art privately and through holding workshops, but also has been Artist-in-Residence in several areas and has maintained a commitment to art within the community assisting in schools programmes, art therapy in a respite centre and even set design and backdrops for the regional theatrical group. She has also been actively involved in Flying Arts, Artworkers Alliance and the Queensland Arts Council ( for which she is currently President in Biloela).
Works can be found in the Banana Shire Council Collection and the Caplec Art Collection, but her paintings have been acquired privately across Australia and overseas and Sarah has completed many private commissions.
Finalist-
Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2007
Solo exhibition-
LandmarX - BrushmarX
Brisbane 2008
2011 -
Outback Walkabout exhibition
Stockmans Hall of Fame
Longreach, Qld.
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Jim Kinch
Painting - Acrylic
Artist Information
Jim Kinch was born in Dundalk, Ireland where he studied with Belfast painter Hugh McCormack and attended the Dundalk Technical College.
With a career in design and marketing, he emigrated to Australia in 1973 painting mostly in isolation and developing his strong “Post Impressionist” style.
Jim has exhibited in Australia regularly since 1990 and conducts regular workshops with art groups.
With many solo exhibitions interstate to his credit, his work has been commissioned by many corporate clients in Australia and overseas. His down to earth approach, variety of subjects, and in particular his action paintings, has resulted in ever increasing popularity.
Commissions are available for any sport or action subject.
2011 -
Outback Walkabout exhibition
Stockmans Hall of Fame
Longreach, Qld.
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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
2011
Outback Walkabout exhibition
Stockmans Hall of Fame
Longreach, Qld.
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"Outback Walkabout" is the latest exhibition from
Art on Cairncross
to be held at the Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach.
The exhibition will be held from July 29 to September 25, 2011.
Please use the contact form at the bottom of the page
to contact Art on Cairncross
for prices of the paintings in "Outback Walkabout".
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Sarah Larsen
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