Antony has developed a visual language that embraces the ephemeral. He lives in Aotearoa, New Zealand, a country with spectacular glaciers, picturesque fiords, rugged mountains, vast plains, rolling hillsides, subtropical forests and volcanoes. The terrain and weather are diverse so it's no surprise that his paintings are implied and faceted. When contemplating landscape painting in these terms the artist describes a definition of the word vista that relates particularly well to the process of a painting as it develops. It reads.. An extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events.)
‘Slowing down, relooking, coming back to, helps to internalize a landscape and a painting practice’. These works encapsulate a palimpsest of decisions over time. The aim is to give the viewer a sense of an ever-changing psychological landscape.
With respect to the relationship between abstraction and figuration the artist says, ‘The marks are independent gestures, but also acknowledge the brain's tendency to search for representation. I’m looking for this middle ground, to confound the space somehow through the interchange of revealing and concealing.'
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Antony has been a selected finalist in the James Wallace Art Awards, the NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, the Molly Morpeth-Canaday Art Award, and the National Contemporary Art Award. In 2001 he won the New Zealand Art and Faith Award. He has exhibited in New Zealand, Australia, China and the U.S where he has representation with Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York.