DON’T BLINK.
Original title: Tiger
Everyone calls him Tony.
Create first.Explain later.
Walls. Canvas. Rooms. Pixels.
Other bad behaviour with paint.
Selected work
The work didn't need help.
The titles did.
Tony's an artist. Not a copywriter.
I SAW THAT.
Original title: Owl
BAD MEN. GOOD SUITS.
Original title: Pulp Friction
AFTER THE FIRE.
Original title: Radium Tree
THE GARDEN NOTICED YOU.
Original title: Alien Tripp
THE DESTROYER IS THINKING.
Original title: Lord Shiva
What Tony actually does
Makes flat things misbehave.
WALLS THAT LIE.
Murals. Trompe-l'oeil. False openings. Impossible depth. Architecture with a better imagination.
CANVAS THAT WON'T BEHAVE.
Originals. Commissions. One-offs. Nothing designed to sit quietly above the sofa.
ROOMS WITH OTHER PLANS.
Texture. Ageing. Surface effects. Painted finishes. Interiors persuaded to become something else.
PIXELS, WHEN NECESSARY.
Digital illustration and design. Because eventually somebody gave Tony a Mac.
Is your wall behaving itself?
THE SUN SET. THEY DIDN’T.
Original title: Pyramids of Giza
THE SKY LOST ITS TEMPER.
Original title: Sunset At Sky River
NATURE DOESN’T DO PLAIN.
Original title: Amazing Nature
LOVE WAS HERE FIRST.
Original title: Lov’in Revolution
THE WALL TOOK A BOW.
Original title: Paperdance
THE WALL SERVED THE SENTENCE.
Original title: Punishment
THE WALL SMILED BACK.
Original title: It’s Inside
THE NIGHT TURNED ELECTRIC.
Original title: Aurora Hills
The brief
Bin it.
Paint first. Explain later.
Tony has never been a brief-reading kind of man.
Flat is a
suggestion.
Weigh your heart.
Original title: Goddess Maat
Radium Tree — illuminated at night
About
Steven on paper.
Tony everywhere else.
London → Japan → Bombay → Toronto → Wherever the wall is.
Born and brought up in London. More than two decades in Japan painting and designing nightclubs, bars, restaurants and hotels. Then Bombay. Advertising. Creative direction. Very clean Apple screens. Eventually, inevitably, back to paint.
There were turntables too.
Ministry of Sound. DJ T2K.
Of course there were.
Commission
Is your wall
behaving itself?
That won't do.
A photograph is enough to start.