Tim Allen

1966 | Blue Mountains

Tim Allen’s bold and gestural paintings are a homage to the beauty and terror of nature. His process begins within the wilderness, in the grand tradition of en plein air painting.

Laden with art supplies, Allen treks through bush and over mountaintops to reach his desired locations. In these remote places, he works with a necessitated urgency, rendering fleeting conditions of weather and movement. These dramatic and soulful paintings are further resolved at Allen’s studio in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales.

Allen has a BA (Visual Arts) and an MFA (Research) from COFA (UNSW) and his painting career spans more than 20 years. He has been awarded several prestigious Australian art prizes such as the $25,000 Paddington Art Prize in 2017 and the Kedumba Drawing Award in 2016. In addition to this, Tim has been a finalist on more than 25 occasions in leading art awards such as the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing (2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2010), Paddington Art Prize (2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2006), NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize (2014, 2013), Wynne Prize AGNSW (2007), Dobell Prize AGNSW (2012, 2009, 2006) and the Kedumba Drawing Award (2016, 2013, 2009, 1999).

In 2014 and 2015 Tim participated in artist residencies in China and Hong Kong, funded by the Nock Art Foundation.

AVAILABLE WORKS

  • Distillation

    Distillation

    Distillation

    Tim Allen
    112 x 112 cm
    $8,500 AUD
    $8,500 AUD
  • Empty and Full

    Empty and Full

    Empty and Full

    Tim Allen
    112 x 112 cm
    $8,500 AUD
    $8,500 AUD
  • Sliver

    Sliver

    Sliver

    Tim Allen
    112 x 112 cm
    $8,000 AUD
    $8,000 AUD
  • Lull

    Lull

    Lull

    Tim Allen
    112 x 112 cm
    $8,000 AUD
    $8,000 AUD
  • Filtered

    Filtered

    Filtered

    Tim Allen
    109 x 80 cm
    $8,000 AUD
    $8,000 AUD
  • Displacement

    Displacement

    Displacement

    Tim Allen
    109 x 80 cm
    $8,000 AUD
    $8,000 AUD
  • Tempered Movement

    Tempered Movement

    Tempered Movement

    Tim Allen
    112 x 136 cm
    $9,500 AUD
    $9,500 AUD
  • Thaw

    Thaw

    Thaw

    Tim Allen
    91 x 112 cm
    $8,000 AUD
    $8,000 AUD
  • Cherish

    Cherish

    Cherish

    Tim Allen
    61 x 51 cm
    $2,400 AUD
    $2,400 AUD
  • Crown

    Crown

    Crown

    Tim Allen
    61 x 51 cm
    $2,400 AUD
    $2,400 AUD
  • Impede

    Impede

    Impede

    Tim Allen
    66 x 51 cm
    $2,400 AUD
    $2,400 AUD
  • Deft

    Deft

    Deft

    Tim Allen
    51 x 61 cm
    $2,400 AUD
    $2,400 AUD
  • In Place

    In Place

    In Place

    Tim Allen
    51 x 61 cm
    $2,400 AUD
    $2,400 AUD
  • Intuit

    Intuit

    Intuit

    Tim Allen
    49 x 64 cm
    $2,000 AUD
    $2,000 AUD
  • Externalise

    Externalise

    Externalise

    Tim Allen
    49 x 64 cm
    $2,000 AUD
    $2,000 AUD
  • Waters Edge I

    Waters Edge I

    Waters Edge I

    Tim Allen
    28 x 35 cm
    $1,600 AUD
    $1,600 AUD
  • Waters Edge II

    Waters Edge II

    Waters Edge II

    Tim Allen
    28 x 35 cm
    $1,600 AUD
    $1,600 AUD

CV

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

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
Immersion, Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW

2018 
Navigate, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
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 Weswal Gallery, Tamworth, NSW

2014
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Milton House Gallery, Mackay, QLD

2013
Catherine Asquith Gallery, Melbourne

2012
Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2011
Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Defiance Gallery, Sydney

2001, 2002, 2003
Bryan Hooper Gallery, Sydney

1998, 1999                      
Coventry Gallery, Sydney

1997                      
First Draft Gallery, Sydney

Awards and Award Exhibitions
2024                     
Finalist, Calleen Art Award, Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW

2021
Finalist, King’s School Art Prize, Sydney

Finalist, KAAF Art Prize, Sydney

2020
Finalist, Muswellbrook Art Prize, Muswellbrook Regional Gallery

Finalist, JADA Drawing Prize, Grafton Regional Gallery

Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Defiance Gallery Sydney

2019
Finalist, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

2018
Finalist, King’s School Art Prize, Sydney

Finalist, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize, Brisbane

Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney

2017
WINNER, Paddington Art Prize

Highly Commended, KAAF Art Prize, Sydney

Semi-finalist, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney

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

Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney

2014
Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Paddington, Sydney

Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament, Sydney

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

Finalist, Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney

Finalist, NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, NSW Parliament, Sydney

Finalist, Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney

2010
WINNER People’s Choice Award, Adelaide
Perry Prize for Drawing, Sydney

HIGHLY COMMENDED, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW

2009
Finalist, Dobell Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

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

Finalist, Paddington Art Prize, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney

Finalist, Norvill Art Prize, Murrurundi, NSW

1999
Finalist, Kedumba Drawing Award, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls

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