Tony Lloyd (artist)
Tony Lloyd (born 1970) is an Australian contemporary artist from Melbourne. Early life and education. Lloyd was born in 1970 in Melbourne. He acquired a master's degree in fine arts at RMIT University in 2000. Art practice. Lloyd's paintings are influenced by cinema, in particular film noir and science fiction, and the Romantic conception of the sublime. Lloyd's largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style. His work depicts a wide range of subject matter from mountain landscapes to film noir vistas of highways at night. History and science fiction are recurring themes. In the  December 2009 edition of "Australian Art Collector", critic Ashley Crawford wrote, "Lloyd’s work clearly encapsulates a strange crossover between popular and high culture – there are times when his work finds the meeting point between Von Guerard and Von Daniken." Curator Simon Gregg stated, "Often the works will speak of the future without implicitly describing anything that is futuristic. While at the same time the suggest a distant past, tinged with the faint melancholic wisp of nostalgia. Which heralds one of Lloyd's great contradictions and enduring points of interest: his works are insistently of the here and now – placing  us squarely in the present moment of experience- but speak of time immemorial; of all time". Awards. Lloyd is the winner of the 2012 John Leslie Art Prize, a prestigious award for landscape painting for his painting, "Expanded Sphere". He has been a finalist for other awards, such as the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and the Arthur Guy Prize at the Bendigo Art Gallery. Exhibitions. Lloyd's art has been showcased internationally in places such as Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Melbourne and London. Exhibitions include: Collections. Lloyd's work is in the public collections of the State Library of Victoria and  Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale.