ABOUT THE ARTIST

Tony’s life has been marked by the ‘spaces between’ and his creative work is a vehicle to communicate and create interludes for others to step into, to stop and pause, to reconnect with the deeper, quieter parts of themselves. To observe, listen and deeply engage, not just ‘look at’. Tony traces his lineage from Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Nurangga Nations through his mother and Italian heritage from Umbria and Puglia through his father. His creative process awakens the artistic practice he inherits from both cultures. He delves into portraiture, using oils as a medium, echoing the tradition of Italian church/religious art. He employs the contemporary use of acrylics and the symbolic use of dots by Aboriginal artists using abstract form to express his deeper historical story and connection.

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Tony’s work can evoke the feeling of looking at the night sky and seeing stars exploding in the galaxies as they create themselves. Through the physical rhythm of putting paint on the surface, Tony generates patterns and visual ripples that seem to move over the canvas in gentle bursts of energy that emerge from a central point. This movement of generating beginnings impacts on other objects in the space – the rhythm of one movement moving other spaces– the movement of all together, creating a new rhythm built into and over the old.