TEO (The Everyday Observer)

TEO is a self-taught Australian-based artist living and working in Yuin Country, NSW. They studied at the Australian National University and worked extensively within the performing arts. In recent years, Teo has returned to a full-time artistic practice and has since exhibited across Australia. In 2024, they were awarded the Brunswick Gallery Prize in the Fifty Squared Art Prize and have also been a finalist in the River of Arts Prize for three consecutive years, as well as the Stanthorpe Art Prize.

TEO’s work is an intimate exposition of personal experiences and observations of the everyday – culminating in uniquely crafted observations of the familiar. With a specific focus, tending towards abstraction, representations often feature a subdued or restrained palette that bridges the mundane with the fantastical. The approach results in a distinctive take on the traditional genres of 'still life' and ‘landscape' entering a contemporary conversation with a greater perspective on image-making.

The Arrangement is a body of work that embarks on an exploration of perception, comprehension and emotional resonance by an iterative examination of a singular subject. This lens on a universal subject (flowers) magnifies the domain of the quotidian existence, a domestic flower display, by revealing the subject’s emotive radiance within a special terrain of our daily lives.