Tim Storrier

Storrier studied at the National Art School in Sydney and was awarded the Archibald Prize in 2012. His signature imagery — burning objects, saddles, bivouacs, hats, and the detritus of the traveller — recurs across his paintings and prints as a personal iconography of journey, time, and the impermanence of human presence in a vast and indifferent landscape. There is always fire, always distance, always the sense of a camp made and abandoned.

His collaboration with Fred Genis was sustained and deeply felt, spanning from the early 1980s through to the Byron Bay years. The saddle series alone — across multiple states, papers, and years — speaks to an artist returning again and again to a single object until it yields everything it contains. Burning Horse, Midnight Embers, Bowl of Stars, and He Always Loved Caruso are among the most poetic works in the entire Australian collection.

Tim Storrier continues to live and work in Australia. His work is held in every major Australian public collection.