ANNABEL TULLY is arresting attention as a contemporary landscape artist. She depicts subtle and sensitive, yet dynamic landscapes to demonstrate her strong kinship with the land. Each time a new series of work is explored and created another dimension of country is revealed.

She was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1972 and on the urban fringe the courtship began between artist and homeland with mudfights in the dam and secret hideaways in the scrub. Her career in primary teaching, and as a principal of small schools, led her to many outback destinations. Travelling extensively throughout Australia and taking working holidays on rural properties, she experienced sensory overload. Throughout the nineties, every opportunity was taken to experience life on the land and to continue interests as an artist.

In 1999, she met and married Stephen Tully - 5th generation Channel Country pastoralist. Encouraged by Stephen's deep relationship with the land and fellow outback artists, she began to draw energy from the vast landscapes and channel her message onto canvas.

After working under the tutorship of internationally renowned landscape artist, Mandy Martin, Tully was encouraged to investigate Martin's use of 'colour, mark and texture to become signifiers of special places' within the landscape. Tully now places an emphasis on the use of found ochres to create a sense of place in her works. Her latest works arouse a viempoint of an altered, yet natural landscape, whereby the subtle landscapes of Central Australia are subtly infused with evidence of human inhabitation.

The last twelve months have been Annabel Tully's most successful and challenging period to date. She was awarded finalist in the Norvill Prize for Australian Landscape Painting in Murrurundi, NSW and 2 prizes in the Winton Outback Art Prize, Qld. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions. In May she travelled to the Simpson Desert for the filming of ABC Television's Painting Australia series. An Artist's Retreat has been established on the family property to foster greater development and appreciation of the Arts in remote areas of Australia. Visitng tutors and artists in residence now can experience the uniquemess of the country that Tully calls home in the Channel Country of far South West Queensland.

ANNABEL TULLY spends endless hours with pigment, ochre, sand and dirt on her hands as she paints en situ.