Tim Allen
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.
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TIM ALLEN
born 1965, 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
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
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
2024 Porter Street Launch, Gallerysmith Melbourne
2023 XV: PAST PRESENT FUTURE, Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2022 Moments in Colour, The Glasshouse, Port Macquarie Regional Gallery
2021 Reciprocity, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery
Five Artists, Seven Days, Defiance Gallery
AWC Mt Zero Exhibition, Defiance Gallery
2020 Defiance Gallery celebrates 25 years, Defiance Gallery
2019 Paper, Defiance Gallery
Kickerbell artists, Walcha Gallery
2018 The Platform 10, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
A Shared View, Weswal Gallery, Tamworth
Abstract Landscape, Defiance Gallery
2017 Artist Profile Australasian Painters, Orange Regional Gallery
2007-2017 Midwinter, Defiance Gallery
The Kelton Plain Artist Residency, Raglan Gallery, Cooma
Packsaddle Exhibition, NERAM, Armidale
Makers Mark, Defiance Gallery
2016 Packsaddle Exhibition, NERAM, Armidale
Step up to the Plate, Defiance Gallery
Spring Fever, Defiance Gallery
Abstracting the Landscape, Defiance Gallery
2015 Art from Australia, Gail Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Hong Kong Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Defiance Gallery
Coorah Contemporary Gallery, Wentworth Falls NSW
2014 Opening Exhibition, Gallery Klei, Gallery Klei Sydney
Stations of the Cross 2014, Sydney
Abstracting the Landscape, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Coorah Contemporary Gallery, Wentworth Falls, NSW
2013 The PLC Sydney Collection Exhibition, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney
The Landscape Exhibition, Gate Gallery, Wollombi
2012 Larapinta Trail Artists, Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Nowra
Seeing The Same Landscape Through Different Eyes, Milton House Gallery, Mackay
Painting the Everglades, Tim Allen and Michael Herron, Everglades Gallery, NSW
Abstraction in Landscape, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Larapinta Trail Artists, Moree Plains Gallery, Moree
The Great Australian Landscape, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2011 The Larapinta Exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Ship Shape: The Boat Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
The Landscape Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
The Drawing Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2010 2nd Annual Drawing Exhibition, Nolan on Lovel Gallery, NSW
The Drawing Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2009 Same Place, Many Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Defiance Gallery Drawing Exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2008 Alan Cleary Collection, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery
Stations of the Cross 2008, St Ives Uniting Church
Same Place, Many Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2007 Same Place, Many Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
2006 Art on the Rocks Exhibition, Sydney
Defiance Gallery Drawing Exhibition, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Shelf Life, Delmar Gallery, Sydney
Same Place, Many Views, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2005 The Defiance Drawing Show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Tim Allen and Dave Horton, new work, Defiance Gallery, Sydney
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.