“What I see, think, and paint are in constant interaction. The world is alive with images and stories, and I never quite know why some of them catch a lift into the studio and work their way into my heart. When I’m painting, bits of my outer life — things that happen in a day, something I’ve read or seen — mix in with my inner life, the library of images and colours I’ve been carrying around for years: 90s computer game graphics, Indian miniatures, Matisse, childhood books. Painting feels like a conversation between those two worlds.” Tim Price

Tim Price is a Sydney-based painter whose practice unfolds through an ongoing dialogue between observation, imagination, and the experience of painting itself. He works intuitively from a variety of sources including direct studies from life, people glimpsed on the street, scenes from films, computer games, early memories and found imagery. Tim compresses the complexity of an image-saturated world into singular moments, fondly recording the ones his mind settles on and would like to replay. While there are suggestions of the original narrative in both the subject matter and the titles, his works remain playfully ambiguous and intentionally open-ended.

Tim holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) and PhD from Australian National University, Canberra, and has held solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Hobart. In 2025 he received the Margaret Olley Commendation Award at the Mosman Art Prize, and was also a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award (2025). He has previously been recognised as a finalist in the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize and the John Glover Art Prize.