Tim Storrier is one of Australia's most accomplished living artists. He is known for landscape paintings with recurring motifs of burning logs and floating fragments of scorched paper and rope. The mysterious, symbolic landscapes capture the melancholy vastness of the Australian outback.
Storrier won the Sulman Prize in 1968 at age 19 – the youngest artist ever to receive the prestigious award. Throughout the 1970s, Storrier spent significant time studying and exploring Uluru, in central Australia. He held his first exhibition in London in 1983, from which three works were acquired by MoMA, New York. In 1984, Storrier won the Sulman Prize again, resulting in the exhibition, Tickets to Egypt, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney which travelled to the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth. Storrier has since presented work in international exhibitions, including the Australian Bicentennial Exhibition, Fischer Fine Art, London (1988); Windows on Australia, Australian Embassy, Tokyo (1995); The Australian Experience, Galerie Konoha, Tokyo (1996); and The Rose Crossing (1999-2000), Tim Storrier Drawings 1971-2003 (2003) and Dust and Ashes (2003) at Sherman Galleries, Sydney.
His work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and all major Australian public institutions, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Born in Sydney in 1949, Storrier studied at the National Art School in Sydney. In 1989, Storrier was appointed as Trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales where he served three terms. In 1994, he was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for his services to art and in May 2003, he received a Doctor of Arts (Hons) from Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. Storrier lives and works in Bowral, NSW.