TIM ALLEN
born 1966, lives Blue Mountains, NSW
QUALIFICATIONS
1996-7 – Awarded MFA College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney
1988 – Graduate Diploma (Visual Art) City Art Institute, Sydney
1985-7 – BA (Visual Art) City Art Institute, Sydney
1984 – Studied Meadowbank TAFE, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 – 'Shimmer', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2024 – 'Tracing Contour', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2023 – 'Riverbend', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 – 'Still / Flow', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2020 – 'Interzone', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2019 – 'Overlay', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2019 – 'Immersion', Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW
2018 – 'Navigate', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2018 – 'Contour, Weathered', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2017 – 'Fissure', Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
2016 – 'Cliff Line', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2015 – 'Peaks and Valleys', Nock Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 – Weswal Gallery Tamworth, NSW
2014 – Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2014 – Milton House Gallery Mackay, QLD
2013 – Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne
2012 – Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2011 – Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2010 – Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2008 – Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2007 – Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005 – Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2003 – Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
2002 – Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
2001 – Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney
1999 – Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1998 – Coventry Gallery, Sydney
1997 – First Draft Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 – 'Sydney Contemporary 2026', presented by Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney
2025 – 'En Plein Air', Artspace Mackay, Queensland
2025 – 'Sydney Contemporary 2025', presented by Gallerysmith, Carriageworks, Sydney
2025 – 'Defiance 30', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2023 – 'XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE', Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 – 'Moments in Colour', The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery, NSW
2021 – 'Reciprocity', Hazlehurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2021 – 'Five Artists, Seven Days', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2021 – 'AWC Mt Zero Exhibition', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2020 – 'Defiance Gallery celebrates 25 years', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2019 – 'Paper', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2019 – 'Kickerbell artists', Walcha Gallery, NSW
2018 – 'The Platform 10', Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2018 – 'A Shared View', Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW
2018 – 'Abstract Landscape', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2017 – 'Artist Profile Australasian Painters', Orange Regional Gallery, BNSW
2007-2017 – 'Midwinter', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2017 – 'The Kelton Plain Artist Residency', Raglan Gallery, Cooma, NSW
2017 – 'Packsaddle Exhibition', NERAM, Armidale, NSW
2017 – 'Makers Mark', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2016 – 'Packsaddle Exhibition', NERAM, Armidale, NSW
2016 – 'Step up to the Plate', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2016 – 'Spring Fever', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2016 – 'Abstracting the Landscape', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2015 – 'Art from Australia', Gail Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2015 – 'Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair', Hong Kong, Sydney
2015 – '20th Anniversary Exhibition', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2015 – Coorah Contemporary Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2014 – 'Opening Exhibition', Gallery Klei, Gallery Klei, Sydney
2014 – 'Stations of the Cross 2014', Sydney
2014 – 'Abstracting the Landscape', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2014 – Coorah Contemporary Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2013 – 'The PLC Sydney Collection Exhibition', Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2013 – 'The Landscape Exhibition', Gate Gallery, Wollombi, NSW
2012 – 'Larapinta Trail Artists', Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra, NSW
2012 – 'Seeing The Same Landscape Through Different Eyes', Milton House Gallery, Mackay, QLD
2012 – 'Painting the Everglades', Tim Allen and Michael Herron, Everglades Gallery, NSW
2012 – 'Abstraction in Landscape', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2012 – 'Larapinta Trail Artists', Moree Plains Gallery, Moree, NSW
2012 – 'The Great Australian Landscape', Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2011 – 'The Larapinta Exhibition', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2011 – 'Ship Shape: The Boat Show', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2011 – 'The Landscape Show', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2011 – 'The Drawing Show' Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2010 – '2nd Annual Drawing Exhibition', Nolan on Lovel Gallery, NSW
2010 – 'The Drawing Show', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2009 – 'Same Place, Many Views', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2009 – 'Defiance Gallery Drawing Exhibition', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2008 – 'Alan Cleary Collection', Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW
2008 – 'Stations of the Cross 2008', St Ives Uniting Church, Sydney
2008 – 'Same Place, Many Views', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2007 – 'Same Place, Many Views', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2007 – 'Shelf Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2006 – 'Art on the Rocks Exhibition', Sydney
2006 – 'Defiance Gallery Drawing Exhibition', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2006 – 'Shelf Life', Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2006 – 'Same Place, Many Views', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005 – 'The Defiance Drawing Show', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005 – Tim Allen and Dave Horton, 'new work', Defiance Gallery, Sydney
AWARD EXHIBITIONS
2026 – Finalist, ACAR Art Prize, ACAR Arts Centre, Sydney
2025 – Finalist, Korea-Australia Arts Prize, Korean Cultural Centre, Sydney
2025 – Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2025 – Finalist, Hawkesbury Art Prize, Purple Noon Gallery, NSW
2024 – Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW
2025 – Finalist, King's School Art Prize, Sydney
2025 – Finalist, KAAF Art Prize, Sydney
2020 – Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Qld
2020 – Finalist, JADA Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery
2020 – Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery Sydney
2019 – Finalist, Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2018 – Finalist, King's School Art Prize, Sydney
2018 – Finalist, Tattersall's Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane
2018 – Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2017 – Winner, Paddington Art Prize, Sydney
2017 – Highly Commended, KAAF Art Prize, Sydney
2017 – Semi-finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney
2017 – Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2016 – Winner, Kedumba Drawing Award, Orange Regional Gallery, NSW
2015 – Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Paddington, Sydney
2015 – Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2014 – Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Paddington, Sydney
2014 – Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament, Sydney
2014 – Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2013 – Finalist, Kedumba Drawing Award, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2012 – Highly Commended, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW
2012 – Finalist, Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2012 – Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney
2012 – Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament, Sydney
2012 – Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
2010 – People's Choice Award, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Sydney
2010 –Commended, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW
2009 – Finalist, Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2009 – Finalist, Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
2007 – Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2006 – Finalist, Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2006 – Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney
2006 – Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW
1999 – Finalist, Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls
RESIDENCIES
2019 – Australian Wildlife Conservancy, Mt Zero-Taravale, North Queensland
2015 – Artist Residency, Huangshan, China, Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2014 – Artist Residency, Zhangjiajie, China, Nock Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2014 – Artist in Residence, Pymble Ladies College
2013 – Artist in Residence, Pymble Ladies College
2011 – Artist in Residence, PLC, Croydon, Sydney
2008 – Artist in Residence Program, Bundanon Trust, NSW
1991 – WASPS Studio Residency, Glasgow, Scotland
COLLECTIONS
Supreme Court of Victoria
Allens Arthur Robinson
Artbank
Paddington Art Prize Collection
Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawings
Bundanon Trust Collection
PLC Sydney Collection
Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
TAFE NSW, Western Sydney Institute
Seoul Fine Arts Centre, Korea
Chandler Coventry collection
FB Rice collection
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
McDonald, John, 'Painted cause with great effect', 'Sydney Morning Herald', Feb 26 2021
Ferris, Ben, Director 'The Great Observers', Sydney Film Studios production, 2021
Macleod, Bridget, 'Mt Zero', 'Artist Profile' issue 52, 2020, pgs. 156-157
Gouriotis, Kon OAM, 'Tim Allen: Symbolic landscapes', catalogue essay, Orange Regional Gallery
Cresswell Bell, Amber, 'A Painted landscape', Thames & Hudson 2018, pgs. 154-157
Stoljar, Maria, 'Talking with Painters', podcast, episode. 44
'Major recognition for Woodford artist', 'Blue Mountains Gazette', Nov 29 2017
Fortescue, Elizabeth, 'Allen's mountain highs', 'Daily Telegraph', May 5 2016
Morecroft, Richard and Mackay; Alison, 'Artist Profile' issue 26, Feb 2014, pgs. 90-95
Mackay, Alison, 'Desert landscapes visit the coast', 'South Coast Style', Summer 2012/13
Fortescue, Elizabeth, 'Green thumbs', 'Daily Telegraph', September 22 2012
Dwyer, Lynne, 'Open Gallery', Spectrum, 'Sydney Morning Herald', July 28 2012
'The Great Australian Landscape', Australia Day wrap, 'Sydney Morning Herald', January 26 2012
Fortescue, Elizabeth, 'Off the wall', 'Daily Telegraph', December 10 2011
'Open Gallery', Spectrum, 'Sydney Morning Herald', June 5-6 2010
Taylor, Andrew, 'Splendour in the Grass', 'The Sun-Herald', May 30 2010
Allen, Christopher, 'Dobell Drawing Prize', 'The Australian', November 13 2009
'Drawing Success', 'Penrith Press', November 24 2009
McDonald, John, 'Wynne and Sulman Prizes', 'Sydney Morning Herald', March 24-25 2007
'Landscape Show' 'Sydney Morning Herald', March 29 2007
Knox, Jaqui, 'Artists star for a day', 'Blue Mountains Gazette', March 7 2007
Kabov, Valerie, 'Paddington Art Prize 2006' artbusiness.com.au, December 1 2006
'Taking Form', 'Vogue Living', March/April 2006
O'Dwyer, Erin, 'Sun Herald', March 12 2006
'Mountain Fresh', 'Sun Herald', May 15 2005
Fortescue, Elizabeth, 'Daily Telegraph', August 9 2003
Fortescue, Elizabeth, 'Daily Telegraph', November 9 2002
Grishin, Sasha, 'Chandler Coventry', 'Art and Australia' Vol 37 No 2 1999
