Tom McAulay - Mutual Respect 2016 - exhibition page
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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 |
Paintings by Tom McAulay for the "Mutual Respect" exhibition now appear on this page.
The Circus comes to Town - Acrylic on Board - 28x38cm
Kobbler's Rock, Mungana - Oil on Canvas - 90x90cm
Rainforest Lorikeets - Oil on Canvas - 59x89cm - SOLD
The Silks - Oil on Canvas - 62x62cm
Learned Counsel - Oil on Board - 26x35cm - SOLD
Racing Cannon Park - Oil on Board - 15x30cm
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Turn for Home, Muttaburra - Oil on Board - 20x30cm - SOLD
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To the Finish, Bedourie - Oil on Board - 15x30cm
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Pencilling for Jack - Oil on Board - 21x29cm - SOLD
The Flannel Fools - Acrylic on Board - 19x29cm
Lofty goes for an Inside Straight - Acrylic on Board - 29x50cm
Philosophers Corner, Flories Shout - Oil on Board - 20x25cm - SOLD
Feeding the Chooks - Oil on Canvas - 50x50cm
Yarding the Mob - Oil on Board - 30x40cm - SOLD
Branding the Calves - Oil on Board - 20x35cm
Monday's Washing Day, Petford - Oil on Board - 20x30cm
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Lefty's Offspinner - Oil on Board - 20x30cm - SOLD
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Lookout Fullerton River - Acrylic on Canvas - 40x30cm
Gabba Steam - Oil on Board - 30x40cm
Mates Reminiscing - Oil on Canvas - 51x51cm
Before the March - Oil on Board - 34x26cm
The Dimboola Boys - Sepia - 27x22cm - SOLD
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Last Round, Alma Den - Sepia - 19x28cm - SOLD
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Aubrey and Son, Katherine - Pen & Wash - 27x18cm
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Eyes of the Stockman - Pen & Wash - 19x23cm
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Elder Stockman, Camooweal - Pen & Wash - 29x19cm
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Station Hand, Sugarbag Station - Oil on Board - 25x20cm
“The Rainmaker” - Acrylic on canvas - 90x120cm
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
