Troy Ruffels - Tidal

Troy Ruffels
Tidal (2017)
digital print on composite aluminium sheet,
60 x 90cm

Troy Ruffels was born in Devonport in 1972, is a graduate of the University of Tasmania and the University of Glasgow, spending years travelling, exhibiting, and studying before returning to Tasmania to live in the village of Forth. Troy is a highly awarded artist. His career has led to significant exhibitions in Australia and internationally, with work exhibited in 25 solos, over 200 group exhibitions in over a dozen countries, and a long list of prestigious scholarships, awards, prizes, and commissions. Troy has spent his life committed to the arts and remains fascinated with ideas of place and atmosphere. He has a steadfast belief in culture as a means of enabling social and environmental change. His award-winning photography and paintings are held in private and public collections nationally and internationally - local public collections includes The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, The Queen Victorian Museum and Art Gallery, the Devonport Regional Gallery, Burnie Regional Gallery, the University of Tasmania, The Centre Coast Council and State Government Collections. Troy lectures Art at the College of Media and Arts, Inveresk, the University of Tasmania, and is represented in Tasmania by Bett Gallery Hobart.

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