Tom McAulay

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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 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 

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The Outback

Through the Gums, Condamine River - Acrylic on Board - 88x118cm

Territorial Dispute - Acrylic on Board - 80x92cm

Moonlight & Rocks, Kakadu- Oil on Canvas - 90x120cm

Emu Afternoon - Oil on Canvas - 78x103cm

Kobbler's Rock, Mungana - Oil on Canvas - 90x90cm

From the Earth - Oil on Board - 38x48cm

Branding the Calves - Oil on Board - 20x25cm

The Circus Comes to Town - Acrylic on Board - 30x40cm

The Characters

Eyes of the Stockman - Pen & Wash - 19x23cm

Aubrey & Son, Katherine - Pen & Wash - 27x18cm

Carrying the Tack - Sepia - 50x32cm

The Experienced Horse Breaker - Charcoal - 36x26cm

Kalkarinji Man - Charcoal & Pastel on coloured paper - 23x19cm

Ringer on the Rails, Sugarbag - Charcoal & Pastel on coloured paper - 23x19cm

Toby, Mungana Man - Charcoal & Pastel on coloured paper - 23x19cm

Breakfast at Sally's - Acrylic on Board - 44x60cm

Horse racing

The Enclosure, Doomben - Oil on Board - 20x25cm

Heavy Going, Eagle Farm - Oil on Board - 20x25cm

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

Owners Advice - Charcoal - 40x28cm

Good Run - Pastel - 14.5x9.5cm

Sporting paintings

Mona Mona Mission Football - Acrylic on board - 9x30cm

Journeyman Down - Acrylic on Board - 50x40cm

The Contender - Oil on Board - 50x40cm

World War I

Light Horseman - Oil on Board - 49x39cm

Charge of the Lighthorse - Beersheba - Limited Edition of 50

Crossing the Duckboards, Ypres - Oil on Board - 35x45cm

Hard Tack & Billy Tea - Oil on Board - 39x49cm

Legal Eagles

The Silks - Oil on Board - 62x62cm

Who's on First - Acrylic on Board - 23x17cm

For the Accused - Acrylic on Board - 23x17cm

By the Book? - Acrylic on Board - 23x17cm

“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

2019
'Drawn from the Bush' - Gatakers Artspace - Maryborough - November

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