Tim Storrier (b. 1949)
Equine Impedimenta (Tully’s Baggage)2019
bronze
H:36 x W22 x L49cm, base length 31.5cm
edition of 50
Essay
Equine Impedimenta (Tully’s Baggage) is an exquisite sculpture of a horse with an assortment of artist’s paraphernalia strapped to its mount. Inspired by the artist’s fascination with horses and the history of our human relationship with them Tim Storrier states, “Horses are beautiful creatures. Their partnership with us is ancient and although not without coercion it has been a wonderfully productive relationship” (Bowral, 2020). Having done numerous studies, drawings and paintings of horses and having collaborated with a master sculptor, Liao Shengxiang, Storrier was inspired to create these bronze maquettes that stand as tributes to these beautiful creatures.
Biography
1949 Born, Sydney
1967–69 Studied at the National Art School, Sydney
2020 Currently lives and works in Bowral, NSW
Awards and Commissions
2017 Awarded Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Sydney
2017 Awarded a Fellowship of the National Art School, Sydney
2014 The Packing Room Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2012 Awarded the Archibald Prize Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
for The Histrionic Wayfarer (after Bosch)
1994 Awarded the AM in the Australia Day Honours for services to
contemporary Australian art
1990 BHP Commission for International Iron and Steel Institute Conference
1984 Awarded the Sulman Prize
1978 Awarded R. M. Ansett Hamilton Art Award
1968 Awarded the Sulman Prize
1967 Awarded Sakura Colour Products Prize
Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia,
Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South
Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of Western
Australia, Perth; Australian National University, Canberra; Deakin University,
Geelong; City of Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria; Western Australian Institute
of Technology, Perth; Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, NSW; New England
Regional Art Museum, NSW; City of Rockhampton Art Gallery, Queensland;
Museum and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory, Darwin; Wollongong
City Gallery, NSW; Bar Association of New South Wales, Sydney; The
Australian Print Collection, Wagga Wagga; Regional Art Gallery, NSW