Tommy Balogh

My name is Tommy Balogh.

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Welcome to my world.

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I create art because it’s who I am, its what gets me up in the morning. Its what also keeps me up at night.

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For over fifteen years, I’ve followed a simple guiding principle: to keep exploring what’s possible when I am alive. To take paint media, using colour, composition, new techniques and fuse these with light to generate a new art movement, one that creates a higher level experience, one that lets us see our divinity.

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My work didn’t begin in galleries or grand spaces. It began on the streets of Newtown in Sydney, painting wherever I could, learning by doing, making mistakes, and trusting my gut long before I trusted any plan. Although I was studying at the time at the Australian National University, I wanted to go beyond the institutionalized approach and try something was more raw.

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Those early years taught me something I still carry with me today: the most meaningful work is born when you let go of expectations and stay open to the unknown, because the possibilities are always there. Its just upto you to meet it with the right frequency of intention.

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When I learnt to truly let go, I really found myself. Life unfolded in surprising and quite wonderful ways. My base has always been Canberra and even though I travel to different places around the world for inspiration (ie China, parts of Europe ) for inspiration I always come back to this place of origin. I setup my first major show by pooling all my resources to create a blockbuster show. I aligned a public art commission and performance with this show and it was the single moment that started to bring amazing things in my circle. I met my life-long art warrior friend and entrepreneur and found myself working out of a multi-story basement carpark that became my first true studio.

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There I could create pieces that were not limited by standard sizes. It wasn’t very glamorous, but it was the place that I turned into a vortex of unlimited capability. and possibility. The more I believed the more I could expand my creations and I felt at that time, it was time to go BIG. That space gave rise to my first mega scale works and exhibition.  It gave birth to my nationally recognised and televised exhibition VOYAGE with the centrepiece being the 12m light-reactive flagship artpiece of the same name became real there, and eventually spawned projects that reached far beyond anything I imagined at the time.

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Post -Voyage when I was featured on our National news I had a chance encounter by the founders of VIVID that came to my little vacant commercial space at that same carpark studio, that for a time became a walk-in gallery. The founders were so excited with what I was concocting with my light-reactive art that they invited me to their private Studio in Germany, the famous Studio Kybra, which was seen as the epicentre for groundbreaking art concepts that would have lasting impacts in the world 10 years on.

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Along the way, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with many people and organisations, starting with architects from boutique local to nationally recognized companies, international designers like FILA, cultural institutions like the National Gallery of Australia, Portrait Gallery of Australia and global partners like Marriot International Hotels. and Ovolo Hotels. I have always wanted to make a difference by creating immersive works and environments that live in public, commercial and private spaces around the world.

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Despite the scale of some of these projects, the heart of my practice has remained the same.

I am passionate about how art can shift a space, how that shift can quietly change how someone feels when they walk into a room, their thoughts shift, their energies shift.

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 My work often uses light, interaction and depth to move beyond the flat surface, inviting a sense of expansion, curiosity and presence. These aren’t just visual experiences, they’re emotional ones.

Some works come together in an instant. Others take years, sometimes more than a decade, before they reveal what they were meant to become. Time, for me, isn’t about speed or output. It’s about allowing the right moment to arrive.

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At its core, my practice is about creating and re-inventing spaces through my organic abstract art, from physical and internal,  where people can reconnect with a sense of possibility. Where art isn’t something you pass by, but something you live with, and has a lasting beneficial effect that transforms your energies, actually allows more possibilities to come to you.

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I’m still exploring. Still learning. Still following the path that started all those years ago.

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And you know what, I will never stop.