b.1973, Eden Hills, Australia

"I see all art as a kind of revenge on circumstance. Sometimes the work is less directly related to the real world, but then paint is a skin and there’s always some kind of engagement with the nature of memory."

Tobin Lush was born in Adelaide and grew up on his parents' farm overlooking the Southern Ocean. He studied Fine Art at the North Adelaide School of Art and later pursued an Arts Degree at Flinders University, majoring in Film and Women’s Studies. In 1999, he moved to London and returned to Eden Hills in South Australia in 2005, where he currently lives with his wife and three children.