On Saturday MAY 17 from 11:30am, please join us at King Street Gallery on William for an informal exhibition tour with artist and author Tom Carment.

KSGoW would like to invite you to walk with Tom Carment through his current exhibition Bathers, Bushland, Houses, Fruit & Veg on Saturday May 17, for an informal exhibition tour. Please join us at the gallery from 11:30am for an informal exhibition talk and tour around the show, while Tom reflects on his practice, and the creation of these watercolour and oil paintings.

Tom Carment was born in Sydney in 1954. He studied for one year at Julian Ashton Art School in 1973. Tom is a painter of landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, and is also a writer. His pictures have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1970s, and his stories and essays have been published nationally. During the 1980s, he lived overseas for four years in Africa (Zimbabwe and Zambia) and in France, returning to Sydney in 1988. He spent two years in South Australia, however he now lives and works in Darlinghurst, Sydney.

Tom has been represented by King Street Gallery since 1993. His current exhibition ‘Bathers, Bushland, Houses, Fruit & Veg’ is at King Street Gallery on William, from May 6 to May 31.

Tom’s portraits have been selected for the Archibald Prize and Wynne Prize multiple times, and the Salon des Refusés, twenty-five times as of 2024. His works are held by the Art Gallery of NSW, City of Melbourne Art & Heritage Collection, NSW State Parliament, State Library of NSW, Kedumba Drawing Collection, Macquarie Group Collection and many others.

Tom was the winner of the 2014 NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, the 2008 Gallipoli Art Prize and the 2005 Mosman Art Prize. Over one hundred of Tom’s works were shown at the 2014 Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial at the Art Gallery of NSW. In 2008 the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery held a survey of his work entitled, People, Paddocks, Coastlines.

Refreshments will be provided on arrival, and we look forward to an informal exhibition talk and tour around the show with Tom.

If you require accessibility accommodations or a visitor assistance please contact King Street Gallery staff via email: art@kingstreetgallery.com, or phone: 02 9360 9727. This event may be recorded.

🔔When: Saturday, MAY 17

📅 Time: 11:30am to 12:30pm

📍Where: King Street Gallery on William, located 177-185 William Street, Darlinghurst.

I can’t clearly say why I paint the things I do, but often there’s a personal association or story linked to the motif or place I choose, or some quality about the light that I feel a need to get down, to interpret. I read somewhere that the goal of a landscape painter is to make the viewer feel what you felt when you were there.

- Excerpt from an essay by Tom Carment, 2025

Image: [detail] Guntawang Apples on Red by Tom Carment, 2024, oil on linen, 19.5 x 24.5cm, framed however not for sale. Photograph courtesy of Rowan Conroy.