Quarters of the Moon

USD 17,500

Artist Profile
Tony Twigg
b. 1953, Australia

Tony Twigg’s works show his attentiveness to the space that surrounds the structure. Tony’s work has developed into an engagement with objects, as he describes them, ‘objects found beside the road’. He feels that he can read the language of these objects which crosses the national and cultural boundaries of our region. Most of his works incorporate found objects or found materials and he readily acknowledges the hand of an anonymous collaborator in their making. He sees the truth in his found materials that he says, “are facts that come after the facts of history; they are the facts of life”.

This has proven to be part of his own personal growth and evolution which has made him sensitive to the occurrence of life itself and something that needs to be shared. Tony Prove is an Australian artist with strong links to Malaysia, as he has been living in Kuala Lumpur since 1995 due to his involvement in several high-profile rail transportation projects.

A chance visit to Manila in 1995 began an ongoing engagement with the city, the Philippines, and culture simultaneously accessible and outside the parameters of Australian life. Periods of time spent living and working there have to lead to travel through South East Asia, exhibitions in Manila, Kuala Lumpur, and Singapore, and commissioned projects across the region. Resettled in Australia after several productive years in the Philippines, Tony Twigg’s creative output encompasses his own well-traveled blend of sculpture and painting. Tony Twigg has had 57 solo exhibitions since he began exhibiting his paintings in the 1970s. He studied art at Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education, completed his Master of Fine Art in 1985, and is currently living in Sydney, Australia.