"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 Herberton 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 in Australia. He is also represented in overseas 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 the Far North of Australia - to Western Queensland. His journeys take him from old disused dumps to the isolated east coast, from Cooktown to Cape York. Toms boat trips accompanied by his dogs, are very much part of his work, the time being spent enjoying the solitude, fishing & collecting material which may be used in future work. This solitude is very important for his thinking & recharging his batteries, thus enabling him to get a new series of work underway on his return home.
