Overview

Born Boston, USA

Lives & Works Sydney (Eora)

 

Tom Arthur has been described by Urszula Szulakowska in her book, Alchemy in Contemporary Art, as being one of the most original and innovative Australian artists. Originally from Boston, USA, Arthur was educated at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. He has been a resident of Sydney, Australia since 1973 and from 1976 he became an influential teacher at Sydney College of the Arts, with lasting effect on the practice of several generations of Australian artists.

 

Arthur is principally known as a conceptual installation artist whose works incorporate a wide range of processes, materials and contextual sitings. Conceived as self-contained entities, each work is akin to being a chapter of an ongoing narrative. The works are known for their technical and formal complexity as well as their critical engagement with the theorised and historically charged architectural spaces of the public art museum, exhibition space and gallery.

 

His work is held in numerous public collections and has featured in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of NSW, National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, the Serpentine Gallery in London, Luxembourg Gardens in Paris and various international biennales including the Australian Perspecta.

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Available Works
  • Tom Arthur, It Always Begins With a Song, 2012
    Tom Arthur
    It Always Begins With a Song, 2012
    ceramic, turtle skull, glass eyes, wood, paint, perspex vitrine
    73 x 35 x 42 cm
    $20,000
  • Tom Arthur, Lady Thorne Coffin, 2016
    Tom Arthur
    Lady Thorne Coffin, 2016
    marble, coral, steel, ceramic, wood, perspex vitrine
    73 x 35 x 35 cm
    $20,000
  • Tom Arthur, Matter Door, 2018
    Tom Arthur
    Matter Door, 2018
    resin, taxidermy, cloth, ceramic, silver, wood, perspex vitrine
    51 x 35 x 35 cm
    $18,000
  • Tom Arthur, Pony, 2012
    Tom Arthur
    Pony, 2012
    plaster, taxidermy, wood wool, thread, wood, fabric, perspex vitrine
    49 x 60 x 39 cm
    $20,000
  • Tom Arthur, The Moon and the Tooth Boat, 2018
    Tom Arthur
    The Moon and the Tooth Boat, 2018
    mixed media
    36.5 x 27.5 x 18.5 cm
    $6,000
  • Tom Arthur, Who Brang Coozeee, 2014
    Tom Arthur
    Who Brang Coozeee, 2014
    taxidermy, wood, steel, metalised spheres, perspex vitrine
    156 x 69 x 47 cm
    $50,000
Exhibitions