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Photo: Tash Sultana, borrowed my old Hasselblad to take my portrait, backstage at Laneway Port Adelaide 2017

Bio

Some of the exhibitions I've had work in;
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July 2010

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Mar 2011

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May 2011

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May 2012

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Jan 2017

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Mar 2017

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RUST

Arancio

Near and Wide


Souq

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AddOn

SALT

AddOn

Closer


TAR


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AddOn

RSASA Portrait Prize

Collection 2013

AIPP for SALA



DARK

DARK

Mug Shots

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Tall Ships

Waterfront

SMOKE

1 : 1 Collective

Syria Lost

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Light

BIFB Collection 2014

Kennedy Prize

KNOT

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Australian Artists
in Milan


From Within

TIME

The Syria that was


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Emma Hack Art Prize

littlerundlestreetart
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​GRIT




​AddOn

Earth
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​CLOSER

​Alchemical Trades

​RED

​Hidden Port

​Curious Objects

​GRAIN

​Women in Focus

RSASA Portrait Prize

​Martin Kantor Portrait Prize
Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide 

Cibo Cafe, Prospect

Shimmer Photography Festival
Wirra Wirra Winery, McLaren Vale

Lucia's, Central Market, Adelaide

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Mary Place Gallery, Sydney 

Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide 

Mary Place Gallery, Sydney 

Shimmer Photography Festival 
Primo Estate Winery, McLaren Vale

Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide


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Depot II Gallery, Sydney

Institute Building, Adelaide

Eleven40 Gallery, Melbourne

Light Gallery, Adelaide



Mechanics Institute, Ballarat

Adelaide Town Hall

Red Lime Shack, Port Adelaide

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My Modern Nest, Port Adelaide

Signal Point, Goolwa

Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide

JPE Design Studio, Adelaide

Rosemount Estate, McLaren Vale

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Red Poles, McLaren Vale

Eleven40 Gallery, Melbourne

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Stomping Ground Studios, Adelaide

Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide

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ArtMeet Gallery, Milan


Dutch Coffee Lab, Port Adelaide

Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat

Projections Program, Mining Exchange,
Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2015

Adelaide Festival Centre

Little Rundle Street, Kent Town, SA


​The Packing Shed, Hart's Mill, Port Adelaide




​The Depot Gallery, Sydney

​Gallery Yampu, Port Adelaide

​The Packing Shed, Hart's Mill, Port Adelaide

​Red Poles, McLaren Vale

Adelaide Festival Centre/Adelaide Airport

SA Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide

Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa

The Packing Shed, Hart's Mill, Port Adelaide

​National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Institute Building, Adelaide

​Ballarat Town Hall, Ballarat International Foto Festival

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​Winner of the overall Best Visual Art and Design Award, Adelaide Fringe 2013



​Winner Portrait Prize - Photography



Winner 3 Silvers and Runner-up in Contemporary Photographic Artist of the Year 2013, AIPP SA Awards
























Shortlisted finalist

​Winner of Fringe Weekly Award for
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​Winner of Fringe Weekly Award for
Best Visual Art and Design. Winner of the Eran Svigos Award for Best Visual Art, Adelaide Fringe 2016









​Winner of the overall prize of $5000









​Shortlisted finalist, $10,000 prize

​Shortlisted finalist, $15,000 prize


​TONY KEARNEY BIO
 
Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Tony Kearney grew up in Gisborne before returning to Wellington to study Product Design at Wellington Polytechnic. The course was his introduction to studio photography, providing him with an invaluable four hours a week of working in the darkrooms and studios over his next four years of studies.
 
After graduating in 1980, Tony moved to Adelaide, Australia. Lacking easy access to photographic facilities, photography took a back seat, for many years it was simply the recording of daily life, special events and travel. Then in 2006 when the South Australian Government decided to remove, through wholesale demolition, much of the maritime character from Port Adelaide (a place he and his partner had decided to call home) he saw that there was an urgent need to record the culture and fabric of what was being lost and to use the images produced to inform others. So out came the old cameras and the film and his passion for film photography was reignited.
 
Tony develops his B&W film in the laundry and hangs it in the shower to dry. Needing a darkroom to print his negatives, in 2011 he enrolled as a mature age student in a night class for Year 11 photography, the following year he enrolled for Year 12 and decided to undertake all the projects and write the essays as required. He finished the year with the highest score for Year 12 Creative Arts in the country.
 
Portraiture has, in recent years, become a focus of Tony’s photography. Asking friends to sit for a digital snap would be one thing, expecting them to be patient and still while lenses are focused to produce upside down images on ground glass, sheet film holders are inserted into the back of cameras, lenses cocked, dark slides removed and the subject asked to pose for up to sixteen seconds is something else. It requires patience and trust from the sitter and a methodical process from the taker, any glitch contributing to the cost of the adventure. Each photo shoot is a real collaborative process.
 
Tony exhibits regularly, has ‘curated’ a series of award-winning contemporary art exhibitions based on single word Port-centric themes, collects and uses dodgy old cameras and older lenses with expired film stock and generally loves to play at all things that are regarded as alternative photography. He won the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Portrait Prize for Photography in 2013, has been shortlisted for the International Fine Art Photographer of the Year in Paris two years running, recently had his work shown in Milan and has been a finalist in the $25,000 Kennedy Contemporary Art Prize in 2014 and the Emma Hack Art Prize in 2016. GILL, a portrait of Gill Hicks, survivor of the 2005 London underground bombings, has, in early 2016, been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery and is currently showing in the Women in Focus exhibition. It is currently shortlisted for the $10,000 Kennedy Acquisitive Prize, part of the RSASA Portrait exhibition. 5th floor has recently won the $5000 first prize for the RED photography challenge initiated by Sight for All and his portrait of Linda Syddick Tjungkiya Napaltjarri has been shortlisted for the inaugural Ballarat International Foto Festival's $15,000 Martin Kantor Portrait Prize.
 
Tony’s day job is Product Design, leaving the evenings and weekends to indulge in his passion for photography.



​Activities

July 2014               Hired to lecture on Black and White analogue photography at University of South Australia 

Feb 2015               Commission to photographically document Blinc, 2015 Adelaide Festival

Nov 2015               Formed Foto5 to provide photographic art for the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, 800+ rooms, up to 9 metre wide prints in public spaces

Apr 2016                Portrait of Gill acquired by the National Portrait Gallery

May 2016               Hired to lecture on Black and White analogue photography at University of South Australia 

April 2017              Commissioned to photographically document the changes happening to the Adelaide Festival Centre

May 2017               Commissioned to run photographic workshops and record the day to day work of the artists at the Many Hands Art Centre in Alice Springs

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