About Tim Butcher
Visual storyteller · Photographer · Filmmaker
I’m a Tasmanian-based artist working across photography, film, and writing to explore how people live, work, and care for one another in a world that often forgets to.
After two decades as a visual ethnographer and professor, I left academia to return to the darkroom — and to pursue a slower, more attentive form of storytelling. My practice is grounded in radical empathy and what I call quiet resistance: making space for what’s overlooked, and giving form to what’s felt but rarely spoken.
From solitary fieldwork to collaborative film projects, my work moves between analogue and digital, between still and moving image — always asking how we might see each other more clearly.
I’m the creator of ConnectCurateCreate, a podcast and community platform documenting the practices of artists, makers and thinkers from the margins. My 2023 book, Creative Work Beyond Precarity, draws on my earlier research into alternative ways of working and learning together.
I live simply, work independently, and aim to make art that opens something in people — a memory, a question, a sense of possibility.
If you’re interested in working together, or commissioning a project, let’s talk.
Recent press
An interview for Island magazine in 2025.
Excerpt from the Contemporary Art Tasmania podcast in 2025.
Article about Tales of Precarity at Sawtooth ARI in 2023.