| Tony Lloyd | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Anthony Lloyd |
| Born | 1970 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Field | Painting |
Tony Lloyd (born 1970[1]) is an Australian contemporary artist. Tony was born in Melbourne Victoria.[1] Lloyd's paintings are influenced by cinema,[2] in particular Film Noir and Science Fiction,[3] and the Romantic Sublime (philosophy).[4] His largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style. Lloyd currently resides in Melbourne,[5] Victoria.
Tony Lloyd's work was exhibited in "Depth of Field" 2003 at Shepparton Art Gallery Monash UniversityMuseum of Art,[1] "Oneindige landschappen" at Slot Zeist The Netherlands in 2004 [6] "Heat: Art and Climate Change" at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2008.[7] In 2009 Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale staged 'Lost Highways' a survey of the artist's work from 1998-2008.[8] His work is in the public collections of the State Library of Victoria and Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.
Lloyd's paintings depict a wide range of subject matter from mountain landscapes[9] to Film Noir vistas of highways at night.[10] History and Science Fiction are also recurring themes.[3] In the December 2009 edition of Australian Art Collector magazine, the art critic Ashley Crawford wrote, "Lloyd’s work clearly encapsulates a strange crossover between popular and high culture – there are times when his work finds the meeting point between Von Guerard and Von Daniken."[11] Curator Simon Gregg states that, 'Often the works will speak of the future without implicitly describing anything that is futuristic. While at the same time the suggest a distant past, tinged with the faint melancholic wisp of nostalgia. Which heralds one of Lloyd's great contradictions and enduring points of interest: his works are insistently of the here and now- placing us squarely in the present moment of experience- but speak of time immemorial; of all time'.[12]