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 |
The Outback
Bowling on a Dusty Wicket - Acrylic on Board - 30x40cm
Stampede - Acrylic on Board - 20x40cm
Emu Moon - Acrylic on Canvas - 75x75cm
Through the Gums, Condamine River - Acrylic on Board - 88x118cm
Territorial Dispute - Acrylic on Board - 80x92cm
Curious Emu - Acrylic on Board - 25x20cm
Kobbler's Rock, Mungana - Oil on Canvas
From the Earth - Oil on Board - 38x48cm
Branding the Calves - Oil on Board - 20x25cm
The Characters
Boss Drover - Acrylic on Board - 50x40cm
Carrying the Tack - Sepia - 50x32cm
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Eyes of the Stockman - Pen & Wash - 19x23cm
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Breakfast at Sally's - Acrylic on Board - 44x60cm
Horse racing
Owners Advice - Charcoal - 40x28cm
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Good Run - Pastel - 14.5x9.5cm
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Sporting paintings
Journeyman Down - Acrylic on Board - 50x40cm
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The Contender - Oil on Board - 50x40cm
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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
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Hard Tack & Billy Tea - Oil on Board - 39x49cm
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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
2019
'Drawn from the Bush' - Gatakers Artspace - Maryborough - November
