As an artist and curator
(Egg Space, Liverpool), Tony has initiated many projects throughout
Liverpool and other cities in Europe and Australasia (e.g., Romania
and Japan). An advocate of supporting the arts and the research
and development of the contemporary arts, he has provided many other
artists the opportunity to exhibit and explore the spatial relevance
of the gallery context, both conventional and urban. As an artist
Tony’s practice is one of photography combined with multimedia
and other processes to embody contemporary culture.
Tony considers the iconic and idealised in the human condition,
something which influences contemporary life, particularly in our
consumerist society. This has been reflected in a series of images,
‘Super Heroes’. Here he deliberates the iconic of western
society from comic books to the wrestling arena. Each individual
adopting a persona to emulate something other than their everyday
existence. Within the context of popular culture, these characters,
once magnates of their guise and profession, now resurface from
their forgotten origins, such as Jake the Snake Roberts, whose once
majestic façade of the wrestling arena, now plagued by alcoholism,
performs to a smaller audience, but still recognisable by his character.
Their personalities are captured in photographic portraitures and,
although still in character, they are removed from the context of
the wrestling arena, to embody and contrast not merely their manufactured
traits, but juxtaposed to the reality of their lives. These images
have been reproduced not only in photographic format, but also screenprinted
on wall paper, comparable to childhood wallpaper portraying heroes
in adolescence.
transVoyeur and the Artist
A bridge towards the city boundaries. A different structure. A world
turned on its head. transVoyeur is the foundations, the edifice
of the bridge. Not a futile jester of sending a piece of art to
be shown, where the audience is never considered, but this is the
letter, the romance, the interchange, the open heart, the soul.
Not a fling in the ally way, brief fumbling. A hand, a breath of
insight of what make us tick on the other side of the pool. We send
a letter in the shape of boat . No longer the message in a bottle.
Our voices are heard, though the discourse, this life line, this
email, this correspondence, the challenge is the city’s and
yours.
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