… a great pleasure to meet and photograph Australia’s highly acclaimed artist painter, Tony Clark, at his Mission Beach tin shack home studio for a five page feature story in last weeks The Australian Weekend Magazine.
Tony is one of Australia’s most respected artists. For over four decades his uniquely styled paintings have been testing the boundaries between genres and disciplines and borrowing from the histories of art, architecture and theatre design along the way. He has lived and worked in Sicily in Italy and Essen in Germany and is now back in Australia at Mission Beach working on a new exhibition “Unsculpted”.
The exhibition, which opens at the University of Melbourne Buxton Contemporary on November 1st for a massive seven month run, will consist of around 100 paintings spanning over forty years of Tony’s work.
I spent two days with Tony making portraits and pics of him working on pieces in his ramshackle studio whilst gun journalist Ariela Bard got her material for her brilliant story with the intriguing title “Art, Crocs & Rock ’n’ Roll”.
I’m fondest of this first horizontal portrait of Tony (top) , whilst the magazine used a similar vertical version filling the whole second page of the article … so pretty happy with that. Also fond of the second image (bottom) of Tony amongst his mountains of art books that he collects and devours for inspiration. More of my pics were used on the other pages in the magazine.
Not only is Tony a highly regarded, brilliant and innovative artist but also a damn fine bloke. Thanks for the hospitality, Tony … great to work with you Ariela !
Image © Brian Cassey
