Tom McAulay
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Not all the artworks shown here are on site at the gallery at any given time. If you would like to view a particular artwork at the gallery please contact us first so we can ensure that it is at the gallery. 07-5429 6404 or admin@artoncairncross.com.au Many Thanks, Jane and Tony |
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 50 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 |
The Outback
Through the Gums, Condamine River - Acrylic on Board - 88x118cm
Territorial Dispute - Acrylic on Board - 80x92cm
Rocky Bluff, Kimberleys - Acrylic on Canvas - 79x89cm
Moonlight & Rocks, Kakadu- Oil on Canvas - 90x120cm
Emu Afternoon - Oil on Canvas - 78x103cm
Kobbler's Rock, Mungana - Oil on Canvas - 90x90cm
“The Rainmaker” - Acrylic on canvas - 90x120cm
From the Earth - Oil on Board - 38x48cm
Branding the Calves - Oil on Board - 20x25cm
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Sorting out the Brumbies - Oil on Board - 29x39cm
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The Circus Comes to Town - Acrylic on Board - 30x40cm
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Feeding the Chooks - Oil on Canvas - 50x50cm
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Bush Talk, Mt. Garnet - Oil on Canvas - 30x60cm
The Characters
Elder Stockman, Camooweal - Pen & Wash - 29x19cm
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Eyes of the Stockman - Pen & Wash - 19x23cm
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Aubrey & Son, Katherine - Pen & Wash - 27x18cm
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Carrying the Tack - Sepia - 50x32cm
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The Experienced Horse Breaker - Charcoal - 36x26cm
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Kalkarinji Man - Charcoal & Pastel on coloured paper - 23x19cm
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Ringer on the Rails, Sugarbag - Charcoal & Pastel on coloured paper - 23x19cm
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Toby, Mungana Man - Charcoal & Pastel on coloured paper - 23x19cm
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Lofty Goes for an Inside Straight - Acrylic on Board - 29x50cm
Breakfast at Sally's - Acrylic on Board - 44x60cm
Horse racing
The Enclosure, Doomben - Oil on Board - 20x25cm
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Heavy Going, Eagle Farm - Oil on Board - 20x25cm
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The Final Furlong, Birdsville - Acrylic on Board - 60x90cm
The Favourite takes an Inside Run - Oil on Board - 25x50cm
Inside Run - Acrylic on Canvas - 30x60cm
Jockey, Birdsville - Oil on Board - 20x15cm
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Owners Advice - Charcoal - 40x28cm
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Good Run - Pastel - 14.5x9.5cm
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Sporting paintings
Mona Mona Mission Football - Acrylic on board - 9x30cm
Journeyman Down - Acrylic on Board - 50x40cm
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The Contender - Oil on Board - 50x40cm
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100th anniversary of Armistice Day
Light Horseman - Oil on Board - 49x39cm
Charge of the Lighthorse - Beersheba - Limited Edition of 50
Crossing the Duckboards, Ypres - Oil on Board - 35x45cm
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Hard Tack & Billy Tea - Oil on Board - 39x49cm
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Legal Eagles
The Silks - Oil on Board - 62x62cm
Who's on First - Acrylic on Board - 23x17cm
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For the Accused - Acrylic on Board - 23x17cm
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By the Book? - Acrylic on Board - 23x17cm
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“Bungle Bungles” -
Acrylic on canvas -
150x120cm
Recent exhibitions
2010
"Tom McAulay's Outback" exhibition
April
Chinchilla - White Gums Gallery
May
Longreach - Stockmans Hall of Fame
July
Maleny - Art on Cairncross
2013
June
Maleny - Art on Cairncross
2014
"Stock and Station"
November - Art on Cairncross
2015
"One Land, Three Views"
with Rex Backhaus-Smith & Jim Kinch
Miles - Dogwood Crossing Gallery
2015
"ANZACS"
April - Art on Cairncross
2016
"ANZACS"
April - Art on Cairncross
"Mutual Respect" (with Rex Backhaus-Smith, Rick Everingham and Mike Nicholas)
June - Art on Cairncross
