STORRIER

Tim Storrier

Born in 1949 in Sydney, Tim studied at the National Art School. He lives in Bowral NSW.

Tim Storrier was a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales; he was awarded the Order of Australia AM for his services to art; and a Doctor of Arts (Hons.) from Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. 

Tim has exhibited at the Sherman Galleries; Orange Regional Gallery, NSW; Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne; Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW; University Art Gallery, University of Sydney; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery; Brisbane City Gallery; Hong Kong Arts Centre; Singapore Art Museum; Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW; Australian Galleries, Sydney and Melbourne; Galerie Konoha, Japan; Manly Art Gallery and Museum; the Embassy of Australia, Tokyo; Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne; Schubert Galleries, Gold Coast, Queensland; Louis Newman Gallery, Los Angeles; Chicago International Art Exposition; Christopher Leonard Gallery, New York; Fischer Fine Art, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Penrith Regional Art Gallery, NSW; Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane; and Expo ’74, Spokane, Washington.

His prizes and commissions include the BHP Commission for International Iron and Steel Institute; Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales; R.M. Ansett Hamilton Art Award, and Sakura Colour Products Prize.

Tim’s work has been collected by all major Australian art museums and is included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; National Gallery of Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales; National Gallery of Victoria; Art Gallery of Western Australia; Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Queensland Art Gallery; Australian National University, Canberra; Deakin University, Geelong; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; New England Regional Art Museum, NSW; Newcastle Art Gallery, NSW; Wollongong City Gallery, NSW; Benalla Art Gallery, VIC; Cairns Regional Gallery, QLD; Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland, QLD; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD; and the Bar Association of New South Wales, Sydney.

AWARDS

  • 2021 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2020 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2018 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2017 – Winner – The Doug Moran National Portrait prize, Sydney

    2017 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2017 – Awarded a Fellowship of the National Art School, Sydney

    2014 – Archibald Prize (Winner, Packing Room Prize), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2014 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2012 – Archibald Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2012 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2011 – Finalist – The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2003 – Awarded Doctor of Arts by Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW

    1994 – Awarded AM in the Australia Day Honors for services to contemporary Australian Art, Australia

    1990 – BHP Commission for International Iron and Steel Institute Conference, Australia

    1989 – Appointed a Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    1984 – Sulman Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    1984 – Australian Writers and Art Directors Award, Australia

    1979 – Awarded Mining Prize, Perth

    1978 – R.M Ansett Hamilton Art Award, Australia

    1968 – Sulman Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    1967 – Sakura Colour Products Prize, Australia

  • 2022 - Voyager, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland

    2020 - An Itinerant’s Repose, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland

    2018 - Wandering to Arcadia, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland

    2015 - The Poetry of Detritus, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane, Queensland

    2012 – Phillip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane

    2011 Elemental Reckoning: the art of Tim Storrier’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney

    2010 – ‘In absentia’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

    2008 – ‘Photographic works’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

    2008 – ‘Paintings’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane

    2007 – ‘Photographic works’, Curated by William Wright, Drill Hall Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra

    2006 – ‘Boys Own’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    2006 –‘Pastoral Domestic’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

    2005 – ‘Fireworks’, Artspace Mackay, Mackay, QLD

    2004-05 – ‘Great Escapes’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Lake Macquarie, NSW

    2004 – ‘Fire Dreaming’, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney

    2004 – ‘Frank Saxby Acquisitions’, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW

    2003 – ‘Tim Storrier: Dust and Ashes’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    2003 – ‘Tim Storrier Drawings 1971-2003’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    2002 – ‘Constructions, Paintings and Drawings from the 1970s and 80s’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

    2001 – ‘Storrier’, Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne

    2000 – ‘Art of the Outsider’, Exhibition and book launch, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    2000 –‘Still Life and Landscape’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    1999-00 – ‘The Rose Crossing: Contemporary Art in Australia’, touring exhibition: Sherman Galleries, Sydney; Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Holmes à Court Gallery, Perth; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney

    1999-00 – ‘Expanding the View’, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW

    1998 – ‘Pacific Drift’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    1998 –Sixth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

    1997 – ‘Selected Recent Work 1996-1997’, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

    1997 – ‘Recent Work’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane

    1996 – ‘Ritual’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    1996 – ‘Embers’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    1996 – ‘Tim Storrier: The Prints, Etchings, Lithographs, Screen Prints’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

    1996 – ‘The Prints’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

    1996 – ‘Tim Storrier: Two Decades – Paintings and Prints’, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

    1996 – ‘Colonial Postcolonial’, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne

    1996 – ‘The Australian Experience’, Galerie Konoha, Japan

    1995 – ‘Windows on Australia I’, in association with the Embassy of Australia, Tokyo

    1995 – ‘Evening’, Deutscher Fine Art, Melbourne

    1995 – Schubert Galleries, Gold Coast, QLD

    1995 – Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    1995 – Kedumba Drawing Award, Blue Mountains Grammar School, Blue Mountains, NSW

    1994 – Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    1993 – Louis Newman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

    1993 – ‘Tim Storrier – A Survey’, Touring: Orange Regional Art Gallery, NSW; More Plains

    1993 – Gallery, NSW; Newcastle Region Art Gallery, NSW; Mildura Arts Centre, VIC; Dubbo Regional Art Gallery, NSW

    1991 – Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA

    1991 – Christopher Leonard Gallery, New York, USA

    1990 – ‘Blaze Lines’, Fischer Fine Art London, UK

    1989 – ‘Burning of the Gifts’, Australian Galleries, Sydney

    1989 – Fischer Fine Art, London, UK

    1988 – ‘Australian Bicentennial Exhibition’, Fischer Fine Art, London; Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide

    1987 – ‘Tim Storrier’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

    1986 – ‘Ticket to Eygpt’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth

    1983 – Fischer Fine Art, London, UK

    1982 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

    1981 – Australian Galleries, Melbourne

    1980 – Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

    1979 – ‘Paintings, Watercolours and Prints’, Philip Bacon Galleries, Brisbane

    1978 – ‘Paintings, Watercolours and Sculpture’, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

    1978 – ‘Tim Storrier’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

    1976 – ‘Tim Storrier’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

    1975 – Bonython Gallery, Sydney

    1974 – ‘Australian Landscape, Expo ‘74’, Spokane, Washington, USA

    1973 – ‘The Death of a Warrior’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne

    1972 – Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

    1971 – Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

    1971 – Gallery One-Eleven, Brisbane

  • 2019 – Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks, in conjunction with Australian Galleries

    2018 - Sydney Contemporary at Carriageworks, in conjunction with Australian Galleries

    2017 – Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA), Berlin, German

    2015 – ‘An exhibition of paintings, sculpture & works on paper’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

    2014 – Archibald Prize (Winner, Packing Room Prize), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2014 – Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2014 – ‘one of each’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

    2014 – ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

    2014 – ‘Australia Day 2014 Celebratory Exhibition’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

    2012 – Archibald Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2012 – Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2011 – ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Roylston Street, Sydney

    2011 – ‘large exhibition of small works’, Australian Galleries, Derby Street, Melbourne

    2011 – Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2011 – Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    2010 – ‘Summer show’, Australian Galleries, Glenmore Road, Sydney’

    2010 – ‘Australian Masters 2010’, Solander Gallery, Canberra

    2002 – Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    2001 – ‘Five Painters’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney

    2000-01 – ‘Decade: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery 10th Anniversary’, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW

    1996 – ‘Greg Weight, Artists’ Portraits’, Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney

    1992 – Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, USA

    1985 – ‘Sporting Pictures’, Robin Gibson Gallery, Sydney

    1985 – ‘Image and Fabric’, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Penrith, NSW

    1984 – Sulman Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

    1983 – Adelaide Festival, Bonython Meadmore Gallery, Adelaide

    1979-84 – ‘Contemporary Printmakers’, Print Council of Australia, Touring Canada, USA, UK

    1978 – Impressions Gallery, Melbourne

    1975 – Bonython Gallery, Sydney

    1974 – ‘Australian Landscape, Expo’, Spokane, Washington, USA

    1969 – Holdsworth Galleries, Sydney

    1969 – Strines Gallery, Melbourne

    1969 – Sulman Prize (Winner), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

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