Tym Yee is an emerging artist living and working in Sydney, Australia. He uses expressive marks of oil paint to explore simultaneous moments of movement and stillness in the Australian landscape.
His most recent body of work explores the themes of time, the acceleration of life, and temporality, reflected through the subjects of sunsets, ocean views and coastal landscapes. In these works the artist uses a highly pigmented undercoat that can bleed into the following layers of oil paint through the drying process, altering the hues of the ocean and sky over time. Through this practice the paintings aim to capture the feeling at the end of the day or early dusk, when we often reflect, reconnect and find ourselves in deep thought, just as the light fades.
In 2020 Tym was awarded a Fulbright scholarship at Parliament House in Canberra to continue his PhD research at Harvard University, in which he is partly exploring how art making can form part of a scholarly research methodology. He has exhibited with the renowned Michael Reid Gallery in Sydney, curated by prominent Australian curator Amber Creswell-Bell in a group show titled ‘Landscapes’ followed by a solo stockroom feature, as part of their Studio Direct program.
Tym is not currently taking commissions however is always open to feedback and enquires from collectors.