Tom day
Artist Biography I Tom Day 3rd
Tom was born in Shepparton and was raised by my maternal Grandparents at a place called Lake Condah along the recently announced World Heritage Listed Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, where his grandmother was born. His grandmother is a Gunditjmara woman from and his Grandfather a Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba man.
He works predominately with acrylic based paints on canvas and creates artworks that reflect the world around him and things that are meaningful to him, using his vast knowledge of dreaming and creation stories told to him by his grandparents, aunties and uncles to create his own style of interpreting those stories using traditional iconography blended with contemporary styles.
Tom’s paintings are included in the collections of the National Museum, Canberra as well as Internationally at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and the Native Nations Institute - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He has several commissioned pieces in private collections nationally and internationally including Russia, Switzerland, Japan and Italy.
Tom has also designed works for the Essendon Football Club, Hawthorn Football Club, RayBan Sunglasses, Commonwealth Games – Melbourne and Billabong Australia in which he got his first exposure as a commercial artist by winning a National Design Competition while in High School. Tom has also designed works across Government Departments and was successful in the State Wide logo design competition for the Victorian Treaty Commission for the First Peoples’ Assembly with an accompanying artwork that will be launched in the coming months.
Tom was commissioned by Yorta Yorta Soprano Deborah Cheetham to paint 19 backdrops for her latest opera titled Eumerella – A War Requiem For Peace, a story of his Grandmothers country that premiered at Hamer Hall at the Melbourne Art Centre and is currently travelling nationally.
Recently Tom was commissioned by the Parliament of Victoria to produce an artwork for their inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan with the painting to be hung in Parliament House in Melbourne.
Artist Biography I Tom Day 3rd
Tom was born in Shepparton and was raised by my maternal Grandparents at a place called Lake Condah along the recently announced World Heritage Listed Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, where his grandmother was born. His grandmother is a Gunditjmara woman from and his Grandfather a Yorta Yorta and Wemba Wemba man.
He works predominately with acrylic based paints on canvas and creates artworks that reflect the world around him and things that are meaningful to him, using his vast knowledge of dreaming and creation stories told to him by his grandparents, aunties and uncles to create his own style of interpreting those stories using traditional iconography blended with contemporary styles.
Tom’s paintings are included in the collections of the National Museum, Canberra as well as Internationally at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island and the Native Nations Institute - University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He has several commissioned pieces in private collections nationally and internationally including Russia, Switzerland, Japan and Italy.
Tom has also designed works for the Essendon Football Club, Hawthorn Football Club, RayBan Sunglasses, Commonwealth Games – Melbourne and Billabong Australia in which he got his first exposure as a commercial artist by winning a National Design Competition while in High School. Tom has also designed works across Government Departments and was successful in the State Wide logo design competition for the Victorian Treaty Commission for the First Peoples’ Assembly with an accompanying artwork that will be launched in the coming months.
Tom was commissioned by Yorta Yorta Soprano Deborah Cheetham to paint 19 backdrops for her latest opera titled Eumerella – A War Requiem For Peace, a story of his Grandmothers country that premiered at Hamer Hall at the Melbourne Art Centre and is currently travelling nationally.
Recently Tom was commissioned by the Parliament of Victoria to produce an artwork for their inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan with the painting to be hung in Parliament House in Melbourne.