Welcome to my web site. This site is a documentation of my work over the past 15 years. I’m a Melbourne based visual artist, curator and teacher. I sit on the board of the Midsumma Festival and curated the Visual Arts program of the Festival from 2008 to 20010. I’m currently teaching art and design and working towards my next exhibition to held later in 2011.

Please explore the galleries and take time to read some of the essays that have been written over the years.

Current exhibition Temporality

Both seductive and alluring, T J Bateson’s abstract landscapes are non-specific to any one place or one time. They do not represent a literal interpretation, but instead present us with a subjective equivalent, beckoning us to contemplate our own experiences in a spatial and atmospheric sense.

The paintings and drawings allude to the conditions of Nature: stormy and windswept skies, seascapes, open hilltops, closed valleys.

Harmonious and subdued colour along with the activity and drama of the paint itself draw us into the work.

Tim returns to the gallery following last year’s acclaimed Pixel. His previous solo exhibitions include Horsham Regional Art Gallery, City of Glen Eira Gallery, 69 Smith St, Guildford Lane Gallery and fortyfivedownstairs.


He frequently explores the notion of identity and sexuality, and his own in particular, through his artwork. His own history of marks and tone enter his imagery, providing a link between the temporal self, the sexual and the creative.

But in Temporality, Tim has returned to exploring abstraction and a more philosophical bent to his musings in his art practice. Elements from these landscapes are used as a language to reflect a metaphysical accumulation of actions and reactions.

Once we are lured into a reflection of these elemental forces we are then tempted to think about our own place within them. Tim’s work suggests to us that we not only contemplate the physical and material but also that which is inexplicable: the presence of the spiritual as well.

Thus the abstract landscape becomes a metaphorical mirror to understand ourselves, veiled though it is.