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Photo: Tash Sultana, borrowed my old Hasselblad to take my portrait, backstage at Laneway Port Adelaide 2017
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Bio
Some of the exhibitions I've had work in;
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Oct 2009
July 2010 Sep 2010 Mar 2011 May 2011 Oct 2011 May 2012 Sep 2012 Feb 2013 May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 July 2013 Aug 2013 Oct 2013 Oct 2013 Oct 2013 Jan 2014 Feb 2014 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 Aug 2014 Sep 2014 Feb 2015 May 2015 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 Aug 2015 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 May 2016 Aug 2016 Aug 2016 Sept 2016 Nov 2016 Dec 2016 Jan 2017 Feb 2017 Mar 2017 July 2017 Aug 2017 |
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Arancio Near and Wide Souq AddOn SALT AddOn Closer TAR AddOn RSASA Portrait Prize Collection 2013 AIPP for SALA DARK DARK Mug Shots Tall Ships Waterfront SMOKE 1 : 1 Collective Syria Lost Light BIFB Collection 2014 Kennedy Prize KNOT Australian Artists in Milan From Within TIME The Syria that was Emma Hack Art Prize littlerundlestreetart project GRIT AddOn Earth 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 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 Depot II Gallery, Sydney Institute Building, Adelaide Eleven40 Gallery, Melbourne Light Gallery, Adelaide Mechanics Institute, Ballarat Adelaide Town Hall Red Lime Shack, Port Adelaide My Modern Nest, Port Adelaide Signal Point, Goolwa Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide JPE Design Studio, Adelaide Rosemount Estate, McLaren Vale Red Poles, McLaren Vale Eleven40 Gallery, Melbourne Stomping Ground Studios, Adelaide Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide 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 |
Curator and Artist
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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 Best Visual Art and Design Shortlisted finalist 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
