Tomasz Talaj

The ephemeral is what draws me to my art practice and nature is my greatest source.
I have been recording the transience of the natural world for over 25 years now, whether through the fragility of a wind-blown flower or the striking elegance of a bird in flight, or the raw beauty of a quiet landscape. All this has nurtured my imagination and intensified my respect for all things connected to place.
Clouds have been such a familiar and evocative element to shaping the work I do. Staring into the clouds is such a poetic, vivid and dramatic affair for me, often stirring the imagination to a point of blissfully getting lost in the moment.
Our relationship with this natural phenomenon maybe more complex than first imagined.
A meditation on human faith and experience, they mirror our vulnerabilities and strengths, our playful fantasies and testing realities, our loves and our losses, our spirit and transcendence, our hopes and our dreams, they reveal the uncertain and absolute.
It is in the state of becoming aware that this miracle exists or not.
I also work in abstraction as a counter discipline to the atmospheric works.

Bachelor of Arts in Industrial Design RMIT Melbourne

Eva Breuer Art Dealer, Sydney 2004-2014
Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
"Kick Ass Painting Show" 2012.
Feltspace, Adelaide
"Critical Generosity" 2009.
"Intent", Queen's Theatre, Adelaide Fringe, 2007.
"Ideal World's", Gaff Studio Gallery, Port Adelaide, 2006.
"Pucker", Fringe event, The Institute - SALA, Adelaide,2004.
"Adrift", Cube Contemporary Art, Adelaide 2003
"Eleven", CCA, Adelaide 2003
Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo, Australia 2002.
Goya Galleries, SouthBank, Melbourne, 2002.
"Marks", collaboration with Jacques Soddell,
Soundscape technician,
Performance/Installation Allan's Walk ArtSpace
Bendigo, Australia 2002.
Arc One Gallery, Melbourne "Living Things" 2001.
Waverley Woollahra Arts Centre, Bondi, Sydney, 2001.
"Headlands", Dudley House, Bendigo, Australia, 2001.
NRE, Melbourne, 2000.
Espaco Unibanco, Rio de Janeiro, 1999.
Armazem, Rio de Janeiro, 1999.
Four Walls, Rio de Janeiro, 1998
Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro, 1998
Jean Ruffin, Paris, 1996.
Libby Edwards Galleries, South Yarra, Melbourne, 1992
Contemporary Art Australia & Associates, South Yarra, Melbourne, 1992.
Galerie Surreal, Toorak, Melbourne, 1991.


Various private collections in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, France(ecole des be...