Bio

1947
Born Rockhampton, Queensland.
Lives in Herberton, Far North Queensland.

Individual Exhibitions

1981
Fabrications - Martin Gallery, Townsville
1982
Sculpture - Ray Hughes Gallery - Downtown at 123 Charlotte Street, Brisbane
1983
Collage - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1984
Installation with 16m3 of Foam - College Gallery - BCAE Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane
1985
Car Bonnet Cut-outs - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1986
Recycled Queenslanders - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1987
Furniture - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1987
Collage, Bas Relief - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1988
Sculpture-Works from central western Queensland the North - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1989
Chairs - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1989
Still Life and other Compositional Considerations - Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
1990
Further Concern with Still Life and Composition - Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1990
Drawings - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1991
Another Aspect of Still Life and Composition - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
1991
Chairs - Townsville Regional Art Gallery
1991
Chairs - Gold Coast City Art Gallery
1992
Still Life - Another Option - Ray Hughes Gallery
1992
The Indigenous Object and the Urban 0ffcast - Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1993
Paintings and Drawings of Still Life - Ray Hughes Gallery
1994
982 Trasparenze d'Artea Venezia, Zitelle - Cultural Centre,Venice
1994
Still Life - About Drawing - Ray Hughes Gallery
1996
Painterly Concerns - Ray Hughes Gallery
1997
Stories About Things - Ray Hughes Gallery
1998
The Oceania Suite and Landscapes - Cairns Regional Gallery
1998
Queensland Landscapes - Ray Hughes Gallery
2000
Still Life and Landscapes - Ray Hughes Gallery
2004
Stories About Landscapes - Ray Hughes Gallery
2005
Tom Risley - Cairns Regional Gallery
2005
Flags - Ray Hughes Gallery

Including:

1990
Further Concerns With Still Life & Composition - Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand (15 Dec - 14 Feb)
1992
The Indigenous Object & The Urban Offcast - Survey Exhibition. QAG.
1994
982 Trasparenze D'artea Venezia - Zietelle Cultural Centre Venice (5 May - 9 May)

Selected Group Exhibitions

1981
Australian Sculpture Triennials - 1981,1984,1987,1990.
1982
Sculpture '82 - Commonwealth Games Festival Brisbane.
1984
Appositions - BCAE Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane.
1985
Trios Australiens - Peter Cole, Andrew Dunstone & Tom Risley Gallerie Boudoin Lebon, Paris.
The First Exhibition - Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney.
Queensland/Works - 1950-85,University of Queensland Art Museum Brisbane Curated Nancy Underhill
Six New Directions - Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane.
Australian Perspecta '85 - Art Gallery New South Wales, Sydney(Curated by Tony Bond)
1987
Painters & Sculptors-Diversity In Australian Art - Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane. Travelling to Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan(Curated by Michael Sourgnes)
Contemporary Art In Australia-A Review; Museum Contemporary Art Brisbane (18 July Curated James Baker)
Seven Queensland Artists - Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education Toowoomba (8-30 Sept)
A New Romance - University Drill Hall, Australian National University Canberra (12 Sep- 15Nov Curated by John McPhee)
1988
Artists For Another Biennale - Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney.
Gallery Maki - Tokyo Japan with Joe Furlonger & R J Morris.
Seventeen Australian Artists - Galleria San Vidal Venice (Organised by Ray Hughes on Behalf of Richard Ellis World Wide to coincide with the Venice Biennale)
Creating Australia - The Great Australian Art Exhibition(Curated by Daniel Thomas) Toured to all major galleries)
The New Generation - Australian National Gallery, Canberra.(4 Jun - 17 Jul)
1989
Adelaide Biennale - Art Gallery South Australia Adelaide. (Curated by Mary Eagle)
Delineations Exploring Drawing - Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney (Curated by Louise Pether)
1990
Twenty Australian Artists - Gallery San Vidal, Venice; Queensland Art Gallery Brisbane, Benalla Regional Art Gallery Victoria, Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney.
Into Space - The Language of Sculpture,Queensland Art Gallery, touring regional Queensland (Curated by D.Burnett).
1991
Thinking Aloud - Drawing exhibition Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney.
1995
Australia Felix - Benalla Victoria.
1999
A Century Of Collecting - Ivan Dougherty Gallery Sydney
2000
Against the Grain - Australian Sculptural Furniture. Brisbane City gallery.
2001
Tokyo Designers Block - Tokyo
2002
Gallery Artists - Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2003
Beneath the Monsoon - Visions North of Capricorn. Mackay, Cairns & Townsville. Curated by Gavin Wilson.
2005
'Project Show' - University Art Museum. U.Q. Brisbane.
2007
'Our Way' - Contemporary Art from Lockhart River. University Art Museum. U.Q. Brisbane.

Collections

National Gallery Australia / QLD. Art Gallery / NSW Art Gallery / Nat.Gallery Vic ./ Art Gallery SA / Art Gallery WA / Metropolitan Museum of Art N.Y. / Auckland City Art Gallery. / Chartwell Collection N.Z. / Joseph Brown Collection Melb. Laverty Collection Sydney. / Gold Coast City Gallery / Qld. State Library Brisbane / Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville / Mt. Gambier Regional Gallery SA., Cairns Regional Art Gallery, James Baker Collection, Parliament House Canberra construction authority, Artbank Sydney, Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Centre of Contemporary Art, Hamilton, New Zealand.

Awards

1982, 1985, 1991, 1993
VACB Grants
1996
Stanalite Travelling Fellowship

Commissions

Totem
QLD Government Gift to New Parliament House Canberra. Malanda Commission Eacham Shire Council. FNQ.

Selected Bibliography

Bock, Anna
Sculpture display at Tucker Gallery
Townsville Advertiser, 26 November 1981.
First Australian Sculpture Triennial Committee
Melbourne, 1981, p.152.
Howard, Lenore
Sculpture show for Townsville
Cairns Post, 13 November 1981, pp.5, 7
Langer, Gertrude
Three still-lifes in shape
Courier-Mail, 29 October 1982.
Langer, Gertrude
He turns rubbish into art
Courier-Mail, 11 October 1983.
Langer, Gertrude
Tom takes a leaf from Johns' book
Courier-Mail, 26 June 1984.
Ford, 1
Tom Risley
in Appositions [exhibition. catalogue]
Brisbane College of Advanced Education, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, 1984.
Marcus, Will
Australian Perspecta '85 [exhibition catalogue]
Ed. Anthony Bond, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1985, p.54.
Jarrett, Bunny
Tom takes on Paris
North Queensland Register, 17 January 1985, p.21
Lynn, Elwyn
Favourites, censors and other monsters
November 1985, Weekend Australian Magazine, p.13.
Follent, Sarah
Tom Risley: Turning rubbish into fine objects
The Australian, 19 May 1986.
Massy, John
Painters and Sculptors: Diversity in Contemporary Australian Art
Exhibition Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1987, p.44.
Allen, Christopher
War of desire
Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June 1988
Art Gallery of South Australia
Creating Australia: 200 Years of Art 1788-1988 [exhibition catalogue]
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 1988, p.205.
Lynn, Elwyn
Armchair aesthetics
Weekend Australian Magazine, 27-28 May, 1989
Beenstock, Sue
Artist confronts himself and life
Tablelander, 5 June 1990, p.2.
Steven Rainbird
The Art and Environment of Tom Risley
Art & Australia, vol.28 no.4, Spring 1990, pp.84-89
Burnett, David
Into Space: The Language of Sculpture [exhibition catalogue]
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 1990, pp.10, 13
Edwards, Geoffrey
A consideration of some new sculpture from Australia, Europe and Japan
in Fourth Australian Sculpture Triennial [exhibition catalogue]
Ed. Helen Chamberlin, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1990, pp.59, 91.
Daniel Thomas
Tom Risley
in Tom Risley: Further Concern with Still Life and Composition
Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery 1990, np
McCullough, Tom (ed.)
The First Australian Sculpture Triennial [exhibition catalogue]

Atherton Nye
Tom Risley
in Mary Eagle et al. 1990 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art
Adelaide: Art Gallery Board of South Australia 1990, pp.70-71
Daniel Thomas
Tom Risley
in Tom Risley: Further Concern with Still Life and Composition
Auckland: Auckland City Art Gallery 1990, np
Ross Searle
Artist in the Tropics: 200 Years of Art in North Queensland
Townsville: Perc Tucker Regional Gallery 1991, pp.55-56
Graeme Sturgeon
Contemporary Australian Sculpture
Sydney: Craftsman House 1991, pp.83-86
Doug Hall
Tom Risley: The Indigenous Object & the Urban Offcast
Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery 1992 (exhibition catalogue)
Louise Martin
Chew - Getting on THE BUS
(Profiles an artist whose sculpture is unfailingly original, shaped by a guiding intellect which continually seeks new boundaries.) Country Style October 1993
Brendan O'Malley
Chairman of the Board
Courier-Mail, I I March 1998, p.36
Susan Owens
Domestic Bliss - Art Attack
The Sun - Herald - Tempo July 19,1998
Sebastian Smee
Artist abandons rubbish that goes for a thong
Tom Risley New Work. The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, March 25, 2000`
Michael Reid
The shaping of big things to come - Sculpture is no longer the neglected art medium
“(The absolute blue-chip names in Australian contemporary sculpture such as - Tom Risley...)” The Weekend Australian - August 3 - 4, 2002.
Gavin Wilson
Beneath the Monsoon: Visions North of Capricorn
Mackay: Artspace Mackay 2002, pp.29-3 I
Melinda Hall
Footprints from Another World
Spectrum, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 April 2004, p.3
Steven Tonkin
Tom Risley. First Impressions ...and Second Thoughts
about Tom Risley
Cairns Regional art Gallery 2005
ABC
Painting Australia Series
March/April 2007