Tim Allen

1965 | 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

  • Sliver

    Sliver

    Sliver

    Tim Allen
    112 x 112 cm
    $7,500 AUD
    $7,500 AUD
  • Lull

    Lull

    Lull

    Tim Allen
    112 x 112 cm
    $7,500 AUD
    $7,500 AUD
  • Cherish

    Cherish

    Cherish

    Tim Allen
    61 x 51 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • Crown

    Crown

    Crown

    Tim Allen
    61 x 51 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • Impede

    Impede

    Impede

    Tim Allen
    66 x 51 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • Deft

    Deft

    Deft

    Tim Allen
    51 x 61 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • Thaw

    Thaw

    Thaw

    Tim Allen
    91 x 112 cm
    $7,500 AUD
    $7,500 AUD
  • Contort

    Contort

    Contort

    Tim Allen
    51 x 61 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • In Place

    In Place

    In Place

    Tim Allen
    51 x 61 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • Tracery

    Tracery

    Tracery

    Tim Allen
    51 x 61 cm
    $2,200 AUD
    $2,200 AUD
  • Externalise

    Externalise

    Externalise

    Tim Allen
    49 x 64 cm
    $1,500 AUD
    $1,500 AUD
  • Extract

    Extract

    Extract

    Tim Allen
    49 x 64 cm
    $1,500 AUD
    $1,500 AUD
  • Intuit

    Intuit

    Intuit

    Tim Allen
    49 x 64 cm
    $1,500 AUD
    $1,500 AUD

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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.