Art
Tor Roxburgh is an Australian creative arts practitioner, and her visual art includes studio art, public sculpture and arts management.
Painting
Tor’s paintings are naïve, sometimes childish, and often expressive. Her background as a writer means there is usually a strong narrative thread in her artworks. She strives to show moments in time that hint at wider stories about the people and animals she paints.
Sculpture
Tor makes sculpture in collaboration with Velislav Georgiev, as part of a 40-year partnership. Together, they design public sculpture, and create sculpture and sculptural installations for exhibition. Tor’s work in this domain differs from her paintings. Sculpturally, she cares more about shape, materials, mood, and emotional tone, than narratives.
In collaboration with Velislav Georgiev, she co-designed “Memory, Land, Ocean” for the City of Greater Geelong (2008), “Rosella, Cassowary & Kookaburra” for Wyndham City Council’s Neighbourhood Renewal Project (2007), and “Play & Fair” for the City of Ballarat’s Neighbourhood Renewal Project (2005), and “Wind” for Elwood Primary School.
Group Exhibitions
(RE), Dewan Warisan Malay Cultural Centre, Singapore, 2024
Ways of Resonance, Gallery Resonance, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2023
A Case for Trading Places, Regional Libraries & Omnibus Art Gallery, Wombat Regional Art Network, 2013
Stones and Other Earth Pathways, The Museum of People & Earth in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012
Celebrating the Fantastic, Omnibus Art Gallery, 2012
Exposed, Omnibus Art Gallery, 2010
CSAsculpture@StKildabotanicalgardens, St Kilda Botanic Gardens, 2002
Kangaroo – 15th invitational, Kangaroo Ground, 2001
Arts Management
Tor established and ran Zabelski Han Sculptors from 1998 to 2012, winning commissions from cities such as Casey, Wyndham, Kingston, Frankston, Greater Dandenong, Ballarat, Bayside, Darebin, Monash, Moorabool, and Greater Geelong. She operated Omnibus Art Gallery from 2005 to 2012, curating exhibitions that showcased local and international artists. Beyond the gallery, she assisted Annee Miron with the touring sculpture exhibition “(re)construction” (1999-2000).
RE
2024 – Group Exhibition, Singapore
Collaborative artworks with Velislav Georgiev