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STORRIER, Tim
TIM STORRIER
AUSTRALIAN FINE ARTIST
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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; the National Gallery and Tate Galleries, London; the Louvre, Paris; 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; Rockhamp-ton Art Gallery, Queensland, QLD; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD; and the Bar Association of New South Wales, Sydney.
AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
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 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
BIOGRAPHY
1949 – Born 13 February, Sydney, Australia. Tim and his twin sister, Prue, were the only children born of Austin, stock dealer and grazier, and Nancy Storrier (née Webb). His step-brother, Ned (the son of Nancy Webb and her first husband, John Scott), also lived with the family in Telegraph Road, Pymble, a suburb of Sydney.
1953 – Moved from Sydney to family property, ‘Umagarlee’, near Wellington in rural New South Wales.
1959-66 – Attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School. Began formal art studies under tutelage of art master, Ross Doig.
1962 – Awarded First and Second Prizes, Wellington Pastoral, Agricultural, Horticultural Society Annual Exhibition. Category: best drawing, 16 years and under.
1964 – Family relocated from Wellington to O’Sullivan Road, Rose Bay, Sydney. Austin Storrier acquired property, ‘Mount Hope’, at Coolah in New South Wales.
1967 – Enrolled at National Art School, Sydney. Commenced graphic design studies.
1968 – Awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize for Suzy 350, 1968. The judge was Australian artist David Strachan.
1969 – Abandoned art studies to take up a position as a graphic artist in the television sector of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
1971 – Designed 9 x 6 metre backdrop for Peter Sculthorpe’s adaptation of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, performed by the Australian Ballet as part of the Canberra Arts Festival. Worked as a freelance graphic artist.
1972 – Six-month tenure as Artist-in-Residence at Owen Tooth Memorial Cottage, Vence, South of France, under aegis of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Toured the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
1973 – Study tour of Central Australia with photographers Grant Mudford and Wes Stacey, with particular concentration on Uluru (Ayers Rock).
1974 – Designed sets for the movie Stone. Acquired – Waverton Gas Works studio, Sydney. Death of his mother, Nancy Storrier (née Webb), 4 December.
1976 – Expedition to Lake Eyre with artist John Olsen, naturalist Vincent Serventy, and Stuart Purves, Director of Australian Galleries, Melbourne.
1977 – Visited West Coast of the USA. Birth of first son, Benjamin, 25 May, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Moved to Lavender Bay, Sydney. Relinquished Waverton Gas Works studio and established studio in lower ground floor of Lavender Bay home.
1982 – Birth of a second son, Luke, 14 October, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Acquired a studio in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
1983 – Travelled to Kakadu with Richard Tipping, Frank Hodgkinson, and Colin Jack Hinton.
1984 – Awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize for The Burn. Judged by internationally recognised Australian artist – Arthur Boyd. Expedition to Egypt in May under the patronage of Sir Garrick Agnew OBE, in connection with commission of a series of paintings and drawings.
1987 – Publication of ‘Point to Point: The Art of Tim Storrier’ by Linda Van Nunen.
1989-98 – Appointed Trustee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (three terms).
1990 – Married Jane Reid on 10 May at Marylebone Registry Office, London.
1993 – Extensive tour of China.
1994 – Awarded AM for services to contemporary Australian art in the Australia Day Honours list.
1995 – Moved to ‘Blackdown’ Bathurst NSW.
1996 – Birth of third son, George, 3 July, Bathurst Base Hospital, New South Wales. Travelled in a Beachcraft Baron to Moree, Longreach, Uluru, Coober Pedy, William Creek Hotel, Lake Eyre, and Broken Hill accompanied by John Olsen and Giles Auty.
1997 – Travelled to to Nemrud Dagi, Turkey.
2000 – Publication of ‘Tim Storrier: The Art of the Outsider’ by Catherine Lumly.
2001 – Travelled to Mexico to witness the ‘Day of the Dead Festival’. Travelled to William Creek, and Lake Eyre with John Olsen, Rodney Pople and Robert Jacks.
2003 – Publication of ‘Lines of Fire: Works on Paper’ by Tim Storrier by Ashley Crawford. Awarded Doctor of Arts by Charles Sturt University, New South Wales on 8 May. Travelled to Africa in July, touring through Kenya and Tanzania and visiting the major national parks.
2004 – Married Janet Marshall on 9 October at St Mark’s Church, Darling Point.
2008 – Moved to ‘Blackdown’ , Bathurst NSW.
2009 – Commenced building studio at ‘Blackdown’. Publication of ‘Tim Storrier – Moments’, forward by Edmund Capon.
2011 – Travelled to Antarctica. Publiication of Elemental Reckoning: The Art of Tim Storrier 1981-2011, by Gavin Wilson, in conjunction with S. H Ervin Gallery Exhibition. Finalist in the Wynne Prize for Nostalgia (empire of the coals) 2011.
2012 – Awarded Australia’s most prestigious portraiture prize – the Archibald for faceless self-portrait ‘The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch)’.
2013 – Moved to Hopewood, Bowral in the Southern Highlands NSW.
2014 – Australia Day 2014, Celebratory Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
2014 – Awarded the Packing Room Prize in conjunction with the Archibald Prize 2014 for the portrait of ‘Dr Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KCB AO’. Finalist in Wynne Prize.
2017 – Difficult Pleasures, Cressida Campbell & Tim Storrier, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2017 - Awarded the Winner, The Doug Moran National Portrait prize, Sydney, for The Lunar Savant (Portrait of McLean Edwards).
2017 – Awarded a Fellowship of the National Art School, Sydney.
2018 – Publication of Tim Storrier, by Lou Klepac, The Beagle Press.
2018 & 2019 – Sydney Contemporary, at Carriageworks, with Australian Galleries.
AUSTRALIAN FINE ARTIST
ABOUT THE ARTIST
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; the National Gallery and Tate Galleries, London; the Louvre, Paris; 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; Rockhamp-ton Art Gallery, Queensland, QLD; Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise, QLD; and the Bar Association of New South Wales, Sydney.
AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
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 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
BIOGRAPHY
1949 – Born 13 February, Sydney, Australia. Tim and his twin sister, Prue, were the only children born of Austin, stock dealer and grazier, and Nancy Storrier (née Webb). His step-brother, Ned (the son of Nancy Webb and her first husband, John Scott), also lived with the family in Telegraph Road, Pymble, a suburb of Sydney.
1953 – Moved from Sydney to family property, ‘Umagarlee’, near Wellington in rural New South Wales.
1959-66 – Attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School. Began formal art studies under tutelage of art master, Ross Doig.
1962 – Awarded First and Second Prizes, Wellington Pastoral, Agricultural, Horticultural Society Annual Exhibition. Category: best drawing, 16 years and under.
1964 – Family relocated from Wellington to O’Sullivan Road, Rose Bay, Sydney. Austin Storrier acquired property, ‘Mount Hope’, at Coolah in New South Wales.
1967 – Enrolled at National Art School, Sydney. Commenced graphic design studies.
1968 – Awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize for Suzy 350, 1968. The judge was Australian artist David Strachan.
1969 – Abandoned art studies to take up a position as a graphic artist in the television sector of the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
1971 – Designed 9 x 6 metre backdrop for Peter Sculthorpe’s adaptation of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, performed by the Australian Ballet as part of the Canberra Arts Festival. Worked as a freelance graphic artist.
1972 – Six-month tenure as Artist-in-Residence at Owen Tooth Memorial Cottage, Vence, South of France, under aegis of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Toured the United States, Europe, and the Middle East.
1973 – Study tour of Central Australia with photographers Grant Mudford and Wes Stacey, with particular concentration on Uluru (Ayers Rock).
1974 – Designed sets for the movie Stone. Acquired – Waverton Gas Works studio, Sydney. Death of his mother, Nancy Storrier (née Webb), 4 December.
1976 – Expedition to Lake Eyre with artist John Olsen, naturalist Vincent Serventy, and Stuart Purves, Director of Australian Galleries, Melbourne.
1977 – Visited West Coast of the USA. Birth of first son, Benjamin, 25 May, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Moved to Lavender Bay, Sydney. Relinquished Waverton Gas Works studio and established studio in lower ground floor of Lavender Bay home.
1982 – Birth of a second son, Luke, 14 October, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Acquired a studio in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.
1983 – Travelled to Kakadu with Richard Tipping, Frank Hodgkinson, and Colin Jack Hinton.
1984 – Awarded the Sir John Sulman Prize for The Burn. Judged by internationally recognised Australian artist – Arthur Boyd. Expedition to Egypt in May under the patronage of Sir Garrick Agnew OBE, in connection with commission of a series of paintings and drawings.
1987 – Publication of ‘Point to Point: The Art of Tim Storrier’ by Linda Van Nunen.
1989-98 – Appointed Trustee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (three terms).
1990 – Married Jane Reid on 10 May at Marylebone Registry Office, London.
1993 – Extensive tour of China.
1994 – Awarded AM for services to contemporary Australian art in the Australia Day Honours list.
1995 – Moved to ‘Blackdown’ Bathurst NSW.
1996 – Birth of third son, George, 3 July, Bathurst Base Hospital, New South Wales. Travelled in a Beachcraft Baron to Moree, Longreach, Uluru, Coober Pedy, William Creek Hotel, Lake Eyre, and Broken Hill accompanied by John Olsen and Giles Auty.
1997 – Travelled to to Nemrud Dagi, Turkey.
2000 – Publication of ‘Tim Storrier: The Art of the Outsider’ by Catherine Lumly.
2001 – Travelled to Mexico to witness the ‘Day of the Dead Festival’. Travelled to William Creek, and Lake Eyre with John Olsen, Rodney Pople and Robert Jacks.
2003 – Publication of ‘Lines of Fire: Works on Paper’ by Tim Storrier by Ashley Crawford. Awarded Doctor of Arts by Charles Sturt University, New South Wales on 8 May. Travelled to Africa in July, touring through Kenya and Tanzania and visiting the major national parks.
2004 – Married Janet Marshall on 9 October at St Mark’s Church, Darling Point.
2008 – Moved to ‘Blackdown’ , Bathurst NSW.
2009 – Commenced building studio at ‘Blackdown’. Publication of ‘Tim Storrier – Moments’, forward by Edmund Capon.
2011 – Travelled to Antarctica. Publiication of Elemental Reckoning: The Art of Tim Storrier 1981-2011, by Gavin Wilson, in conjunction with S. H Ervin Gallery Exhibition. Finalist in the Wynne Prize for Nostalgia (empire of the coals) 2011.
2012 – Awarded Australia’s most prestigious portraiture prize – the Archibald for faceless self-portrait ‘The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch)’.
2013 – Moved to Hopewood, Bowral in the Southern Highlands NSW.
2014 – Australia Day 2014, Celebratory Exhibition, Australian Galleries, Sydney.
2014 – Awarded the Packing Room Prize in conjunction with the Archibald Prize 2014 for the portrait of ‘Dr Sir Leslie Colin Patterson KCB AO’. Finalist in Wynne Prize.
2017 – Difficult Pleasures, Cressida Campbell & Tim Storrier, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2017 - Awarded the Winner, The Doug Moran National Portrait prize, Sydney, for The Lunar Savant (Portrait of McLean Edwards).
2017 – Awarded a Fellowship of the National Art School, Sydney.
2018 – Publication of Tim Storrier, by Lou Klepac, The Beagle Press.
2018 & 2019 – Sydney Contemporary, at Carriageworks, with Australian Galleries.