Winter Vale, from Weathering Series, 2/6, Troy Ruffles (#064)

Winter Vale, from Weathering Series, 2/6, 2021
Troy Ruffels
100cmH x 150cmW
Digital Print on Composite Aluminium with backing frame

Troy Ruffels was born in Devonport in 1972, and 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. Troy is a highly awarded artist. His career has led to significant exhibitions in Australia and internationally, with work exhibited in 30 solo exhibitions, and over 250 group exhibitions in over a dozen countries, accompanied by a long list of prestigious scholarships, awards, prizes, and commissions. Troy has spent his life committed to the arts and Tasmania and remains fascinated with ideas of place and atmosphere.

Troy's current work investigates how imagination, intuition and experience help us navigate a shared sense of 'being' in lutruwita/Tasmania while exploring the dualities of place that overlap in connecting us to the environment.

His award-winning photography and paintings are held in private and public collections nationally and internationally - locally, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, The Queen Victorian Museum and Art Gallery, the Devonport Regional Gallery, Burnie Regional Gallery, the University of Tasmania, and State Government Collections.

Troy is a lecturer in Art at the College of Media and Arts, Inveresk, the University of Tasmania, and is represented in Tasmania by Bett Gallery Hobart.