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.

Citations

  • Gablick, Suzi (10 January 1981), 'Report from Australia’, Art in America, vol 69, no. 1, .

  • Denise Mimmocchi (2008), 'Tom Arthur: The fertilization of Drako Vülen’s cheese pizza’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Lindsay, Robert (December 1976), 'W Thomas Arthur’, Art and Australia.

  • Scarlett, Kenneth (1980), 'Australian sculptors’, Thomas Nelson, Melbourne.

  • Lindsay, Robert (1975), 'Project 3 (exh cat)’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Burke, Janine (1978), 'Lost and found: objects and images’, Ewing and George Paton Galleries, Melbourne.

  • Nick Waterlow (1979), 'European Dialogue: the third Biennale of Sydney’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Lindsay, Robert (1979), 'Survey 10: Tom Arthur’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

  • Bernice Murphy (1981), 'Australian Perspecta’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

  • Lindsay, Francis (1987), 'The entire contents of a gentleman’s room’, University Gallery, The University of Melbourne.

  • Eagle, Mary (1979), 'Tom Arthur’s other world’, The Age, Melbourne.

  • Denise Mimmocchi (2008), 'Interview with Tom Arthur’, unpublished transcript, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.