About the Artist

Artist and Sculptor Trevor Tagliabue draws on a lifetime of creative practice rooted in the landscape and communities of regional Victoria.

Born in Mooroopna, he showed an early instinct for found materials; collecting discarded fragments from streets and gutters as a child and assembling them into his first sculptural works by the age of ten. That impulse has never left him.

After working for several years in manual trades, he enrolled in art school in the late 1970s. Initially to pursue a career as a commercial artist but later he switched majors to painting and then finally sculpture. Graduating in 1979 with a major in Sculpture. He subsequently completed a Graduate Diploma of Teaching (Art) at Ballarat and taught across multiple TAFE campuses, covering subjects including sculpture, life drawing, art history, and Aboriginal studies. In 2003 he was awarded a Master of Arts in Australian Art History, with a thesis examining the development of culture and taste through the establishment of provincial galleries.

Throughout his career he has maintained a sustained studio practice. He works primarily in wood, gathering fragments found in the natural environment, guided by a conviction that reducing his impact on the landscape is inseparable from his art. Alongside wood, he sometimes incorporates metal, glass, ceramics, paint, and other found objects as each project demands.

He has been exhibiting consistently for over 20 years and has significant works in private collections.