Tony Plant is renowned for his large-scale beach drawings which are made in direct response to their immediate environment, and to the conditions in which they are drawn. The experience and memory of making these walking drawings is then channelled into a series of partnered paintings made in the studio. Each layered painting becomes a lasting document of transient works and multiple journeys.
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25.09.1962 Cornwall, UK
Chelsea School of Art. London 1986-1990, BA Hons Fine Art Painting
Tutors: Trevor Sutton Helen Chadwick Roger Ackling
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Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Porthole Space. Night Walk Zennor 2019
Heartland Project National Trust, Shropshire Hills AONB Painting exhibition. 2017
Royal Cornwall Museum. Walk. Stop. Walk. 2016
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Porthmeor Studio 5, St Ives. 2019
ARCA Project, Snape Maltings 2019
Walk Scilly, Commissioned Artist. 2018
Hireth. Changing the Cornish Landscape. Royal Cornwall Museum. 2018
ARCA Project Payne Shurvell Gallery. London. 2017
Royal West of England Academy. Drawn. 2017
Penwith Gallery, St Ives. Mixed abstract painting show. 2017
San Miguel/Guardian rich list. 2016
Selected Screenings:
Ocean Film Festival, China, Australia, Ireland, Belgium, New Zealand, Italy and UK. 2019
Al-Nahj International Film Festival, Iraq. 2018
Aesthetica Film Festival. BAFTA recognised. 2017
Hull City of Culture. Directors choice special screening. 2017
Hong Kong Ocean in Motion Film Festival. 2015
ICA, The Mall. London. 2014
Ocean Film Festival. Australia, Asia, Europe. 2014
Riverside Studios, London Short Film Festival. 2014
Celtic Media Festival. 2014
Selected Talks:
Carding Mill Valley. Artist talk/walk 2017
Charles Causley Festival, Cornwall. Artists Talk. 2016
University of Derby. Practising artist lecture. 2015
Ocean Film Festival, Hall for Cornwall. 2014
Coolangatta, Australia. Practising artist talk. 2014
Plymouth College of Art and Design. Practising artist lecture. 2014
Residencies:
Porthmeor Studio 5, St Ives. 2019
Ambassador for Plastic Project. 2016
Brisons Veor Residency. 2016
St Agnes Outsider Residency, funded by FEAST. 2015
Bermuda Residency. 2015
Opera Australia. 2 week residency, Queensland. 2014
A2AA Residency Plymouth College of Art. 2014 Port Eliot Festival. Artist in Residence. 2014
4 week drawing Residency, Rame Peninsula. 2014
Selected Bibliography:
Guardian Newspaper:
“Since graduating in 1990, Plant has carved out a successful career as a multi-disciplinary visual artist, making large scale, site specific temporary works, exhibiting globally and acting as a visiting lecturer at art institutions and Universities.” Guardian Newspaper. 2017
Die Zeit:
“Tony Plant schafft an Cornwalls Küsten Kunst mit der Harke. Zubesichtigen sind seine Werke zwischen Ebbe und Flut. Leinwand aus Sand”. Silke Burmester. 2014
Guardian Newspaper:
“Tony Plant's artworks not only celebrate the landscape, they're part of it, he is an artist in the really purest form of the word, and to him, making these things is as natural as breathing”. Marcel Theroux. 2015
Collections:
Most recent aquisisition Royal Cornwall Museum. 3 paintings included into the permanent collection 2017
Works included in numerous private collections worldwide.
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