Tony will be giving a lecture entitled ‘Sculptural Hybrids’ at Teesside University in December 09 as part of the Culture on Campus programme .
Tony is co-founder and director of Platform Arts Studios and has recently occupied purpose built studios within Middlesbrough Railway Station.
For further info visit his studio group website at www.platformarts.net
Summer 2009 saw the ‘Vestiges III’ exhibition installed at Saltburn Art Gallery in Cleveland.
In 2007 Vestiges II was created as part of part of ‘FRED’, an ‘Art invasion’, where artists from around the world were invited to create installations throughout Cumbria.
The projects that Tony has been involved with include ‘FOLD’. A touring exhibition which was shown at The Hub Centre, Sleaford, Lincolnshire until 29th October 2006, after which it was shown at the Northern Design Centre, Barnsley until 13th January 2007.
‘FOLD’ was curated by Gordon Rogers and the Hub, the exhibition explores the practical and aesthetic uses of bends, creases, pleats and hinges within the fields of art, craft, design and manufacture.
‘APPROACHES’ was an exhibition that included a selection of Tony’s drawings and was shown at Billingham Art Gallery, Cleveland until 25th November 2006.
CAMAC Centre D’art Residency is a three month residency situated in Paris that Tony took part in from November 2006 to February 2007. He carried out research into the art made in the late 19th century surrounding the industrialisation of Paris so as to compare and re-interpret signs with respect to similar cultural issues relating to the present day. These comparisons informed work relating to the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial era.