Tony Clark

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Tony Clark (born February 22, 1954 in Canberra ) is an Australian painter .

Tony Clark moved to London with his family in 1960. Between 1972 and 1976 he studied art history and Italian at the University of Reading , graduating with a bachelor's degree . Clark is a self-taught painter . Tony Clark received the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize in Melbourne in 1994 .

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Clark moved around John Nixon , Jenny Watson, and performance artist Mike Parr . Musician Nick Cave and photographer Polly Borland are his longtime friends and colleagues.

The Myriorama Project is one of Tony Clark's most famous painting series, which he began in 1984.

Tony Clark has exhibited at the Australian Center for Contemporary Art in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Canberra. In addition to the exhibitions in Australia, he also received international attention. In Germany, his works were shown at documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, at Art Cologne and Art Frankfurt in 1993, at the Bonner Kunstverein in 1995 and in 2003 at the Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst and Agathenburg Palace. In 2006 the solo exhibition Pseudo wallpapers took place in the Ruhrland Museum , Essen.

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  1. ↑ Documenta IX: Kassel, June 13–20. September 1992 - Catalog in three volumes, Volume 1, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-89322-380-0 , p. 129.
  2. ↑ Murray White Room Tony Clark accessed December 17, 2016 (English)
  3. ↑ Australien center for contemporary art Tony Clark accessed on September 9, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ National Portrait Gallery Tony Clark b.1954 accessed on December 17, 2016 (English)
  5. ↑ 9 February 2011, Ashley Crawford Artist Interview: Tony Clark accessed December 17, 2016 (English)
  6. ↑ The Sydney Morning Harold Dan Rule, January 23, 2015 Tony Clark shifts from landscape to large miniatures accessed on December 17, 2016 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-British painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Canberra