Tomas Wolf
Wolf-In Process
First Nations Artist &
CoFounder of Birrin Birrin Studio
(Australia)
BIO
Tom Wolf is a First Nations artist and Cofounder of Birrin Birrin, a disability-led studio platform based in Victoria, Australia. His practice operates across contemporary painting, cultural knowledge systems, and lived experience, positioning art as both expression and infrastructure.
Drawing on ancestral connections to Country, Wolf’s work explores totems as active, relational entities — including the turtle, eagle, and serpent — embodying protection, transformation, and continuity. His visual language combines layered acrylic, pattern, and symbolic form to create works that are both personal and culturally grounded.
Alongside his artistic practice, Wolf has developed Birrin Birrin as a model for disability-led support that centres autonomy, creative life, and culturally safe environments. The platform bridges gaps between care systems and creative practice, enabling sustained participation in both.
In 2026, Wolf is exhibiting in Threads of Country: Totems, Time, and Transformation at Obsidian Bide Art Gallery & Studio, presenting works that engage deeply with identity, memory, and living cultural systems.
His work sits at the intersection of contemporary Indigenous art, disability-led practice, and platform-building — contributing to new ways of thinking about support, authorship, and cultural production.
Artist CV
Tom Wolf
Exhibitions
2026
Joint Art Exhibition, Obsidian Bide: Gallery and Art Studio
March–April, Bribie Island
2025
Beachmere Art Exhibition, Beachmere
2013
Port Macquarie Art Exhibition, Port Macquarie
2011
Group Art Exhibition, Port Macquarie
2009
South Sydney Brighter Futures Art Expo, South Sydney
Awards
Rotary Club Award for Community Contribution, Rotary Clubs
2007
Award of Excellence in Business, Ngunnawal Council
2007
Outstanding Service in Business Award, Port Macquarie Council
2011
Award of Excellence in Business, Port Macquarie Council
2012
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![Aboriginal dot painting featuring a central spiral design with concentric circles, surrounded by various patterns and shapes in earth tones like white, yellow, and red, illustrating traditional Aboriginal art.]()
Ngura Kulini Nyanu
Country Remembers Me
Acrylic on canvas
[50 x 70 ]
[2025]
© Tom Wolf
Ngura Kulini Nyaṉu acknowledges Country as a living, sentient presence — one that listens, remembers, and holds ancestral knowledge. Through layered mark-making and circular forms, the work reflects a reciprocal relationship between person and place, where memory, Law, and belonging are carried through Country across time
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![A colorful abstract painting with spirals and meandering lines in shades of purple, blue, green, and black, displayed on an easel indoors.]()
Kapi Tjukurpa
Desert Water Dreaming
[50 × 70]
[2026]
©️ Tom Wolf
Kapi is alive.
Kapi sees you before you see it.
Kapi does not belong to you — you belong to kapi.
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![A colorful acrylic painting on a canvas, featuring abstract patterns with concentric circles, swirling lines, dots, and floral shapes in shades of pink, yellow, purple, white, and brown, displayed on an easel in an art studio.]()
Djeran Bindi Wirrin
Spirit of the Djeran Wildflowers
[50 × 70]
[2026]
© Tom Wolf
This title clearly anchors the work in Djeran as wildflower season, while Wirrin carries the sense of living presence, vitality, and ancestral energy moving through flowering Country.
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![A painting of a butterfly perched on a branch. The butterfly has black and white wings with intricate yellow, orange, and black patterns. The background features a bright blue sky with colorful leaves and swirling patterns in shades of blue, teal, and orange.]()
Ngolak Worlak Wirrin
Spirit of the Sky – Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
Acrylic on canvas
[50 × 70]
[2026]
©️ Tom Wolf
The Ngolak soars across Boodja, its golden tail glimmering like ember fire. A spirit messenger between earth and sky, it carries the voices of the old ones — songs of rain, renewal, and remembrance — reminding us to listen deeply to Country and all that moves within it.
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Commissioned Works & Creative Practice
Original works developed through consultation, responding to space, context, and purpose.
🎨 Custom Art Commissions
Bespoke artworks created to suit your vision, story, or purpose. Commissions are available for individuals, businesses, organisations, and community groups, with each piece developed through consultation to ensure it reflects your ideas and requirements. Available across a range of mediums, styles, sizes, and subject matter, with options suitable for private collections, gifts, public display, exhibitions, branding, and special projects.
Creation of original digital artworks for personal, commercial, and creative projects. Services include digital illustrations, concept art, commissioned artworks, posters, album covers, book and publication artwork, social media graphics, merchandise designs, and print-ready digital art. Custom commissions are available in a range of styles, with artwork supplied in high-resolution digital formats suitable for print and digital use.
🧑💻 Digital Artwork
Partnering with galleries, arts organisations, businesses, schools, community groups, and other creatives to develop and deliver exhibitions and collaborative art projects. Services include commissioned works for exhibitions, collaborative installations, public art initiatives, community engagement projects, artist partnerships, and creative collaborations tailored to the goals of each project.
🖼️ Exhibitions & Collaborative Projects
Commissions typically range from $800 – $9,000+ depending on scale, complexity, and context.
Pricing reflects the nature of the work, including private, commercial, and public applications.
Each work is developed as a unique piece and quoted accordingly.
A 50% deposit is required to secure all commission bookings.
Due to demand, not all commission requests can be accepted. Selected projects will be responded to within 5 business days.
