"Tom Risley makes art that has consistently been surprising and challenging.
Shaped by a quirky and wry vision..." Queensland Art Gallery
Tom Risley is an Australian Artist living in a small mining town in North Qld Australia.
Tom is a well estabilished artist & is represented widely in Private Collections as well Regional, State & National Gallery Collections.
Tom Risley has a great capacity to keep pursuing new ideas & surprising his audiences. His work has ranged from being quite raw & gestural, gradually evolving into the more sophisticated & contemplative work of the last several years, where the found material is less dominant in the composition, and in some series absent altogether.
Tom's work is always related to the environment he is in, be it internationally or locally, which spans from where he lives in Herberton - a small ex tin mining town in Far North Australia - to western Queensland, old disused dumps to the isolated east coast, from Cooktown to Cape York where he travels in his boat, usually with one of his dogs, enjoying the solitude, fishing & collecting material for art works.
