Tom Arthur b. 1946

Also known as W, Thomas Arthur
  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
  • Maker (Jewellery Designer),
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
Tom Arthur developed an artistic reputation from a series of intricately, and often theatrically composed installations of the 1970s and early 1980s which pinpoint a period of neo-Dadaists tendencies in Australian sculptural practice.
exhibited at
Date
1997
Place
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Biennale of Sydney
Date
1979
Place
Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Partners in Crime
Date
4 February 1987 - 22 February 1987
Place
First Draft, Sydney, NSW
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
The entire contents of a gentleman's room
Date
1987
Place
Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Ian Potter University of Melbourne exhibition archive; UTAS catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Arthur, Tom, The entire contents of a gentleman’s room. Melbourne : University Gallery, University of Melbourne, 1987.
[16] p. : col. ill.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Tom Arthur: goodbye carpet, goodbye small door
Date
1983
Place
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Newcastle Gallery exhibition archive; AGNSW Library catalogue

Exhibition Catalogue:
Goodby carpet, goodbye small door, [Newcastle, NSW] : Newcastle Region Art Gallery, 1978, c 1983
ISBN 0909115230

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Tom Arthur: five works
Date
1983
Place
Wollongong City Gallery, Wollongong, NSW
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
Wollongong City Gallery annual report 1983

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Major Solo, Installation
exhibited at
Date
1982
Place
The Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Australian Perspecta
Date
1981
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Survey 10: Tom Arthur
Date
1979
Place
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
Description

Source: Solo Survey Exhibition Linkage Project, Tasmanian School of Art, UTAS
NGV annual report; UTAS catalogue

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Solo Survey, Installation
exhibited at
Project 3: Objects
Date
April 1975
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1975
Place
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Date
1974
Place
Bonython Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description

Group show

Type
Exhibition