Tim Sterrier Analysis

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<br>Tim Storrier was born in Sydney Australia in 1949. He spent his early childhood on his family's sheep station at Umagarlee, near Wellington, NSW. His mother and grandmother were interested in art, and he would draw a lot. He drew military heroes and rural subjects such as woolsheds. At the age of ten he went to boarding school in Sydney, where he spent a lot of time in the art room, painting under the influence of his teacher Ross Doig. Storrier attended the National Art School from 1967-1969.
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<br>Storrier is a contemporary artist. He has used non-traditional artforms, incorporating different artstyles into the one artwork. He challenges the audiences comfort zone by depicting carcasses.
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Objects such as debris have been incorporated into his earlier works to indicate distance.
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<br>In the 1960's Storrier painted a series based on organic plant forms which was related to the late 1960's art of the American west coast, using his graphic design skills. He went to the USA in 1971, meeting artists such as William T Wiley who was working on Neo-Dadaism and Wayne Thiebaud who was working on Super Realism. It was this visit which caused him to re-evaluate his thinking and way of making art. The American desert gave him a new sense of colour and light.
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<br>Storrier has an affection for and connection to the Australian landscape physically and emotionally, and it is this cultural and geographical identity which he wanted to keep in his work. Upon becoming an artist-in-residence at the Owen tooth Memorial in Venice, Storrier created a series of works based on abandoned desert sites. He uses the desert landscape as a stage and adds images and objects such as abandoned desert campsites, derelict structures, crumbling buildings, wooden utensils, saddles tin cups, beef carcasses, hats, etc. Examples of the above are Death of a Warrior in Spring 1975 and Study Kennel Memory 1987. The artworks have hidden meanings that reflect Storrier's way of seeing the
Tim Storrier won the Sulman Award for his artwork The Burn.
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<br>In the 1980's, Storrier became frustrated with painting realistically, since the same thing can be achieved through photography. He was inspired by the work of Dutch artist Theo Kuijpers who created mixed media works, combining realistic, tangible form with illusionism. This gave birth to artworks such as The Diary 1979-1980, For Time Means Tucker and Tramp You must 1982, and The Hungry Surveyor 1980.
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<br>Tim Storrier's artworks are in galleries worldwide, and are viewed by gallery goers. They are in The National gallery of Australia in Canberra, the national Gallery if Victoria, the art galleries of Western Australia, NSW, Queensland, and the Northern Territory, and some regional galleries. His artworks are also in the Lourve Museum in Paris, the National and Tate Galleries in London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York. Storrier says to his audience: 'My work has deep meaning to me. It is me. A painting is really a graphic illustration of where a particular artist is at that point in his life. It's a creative struggle to understand it - though no artist ever utterly understands hat he is