Tony WILSON

Tony Wilson is a multi-disciplinary artist based in South Australia.

He creates intricate and evocative artworks that explore themes of identity, collective resonance, and connectedness. Heavily influenced by his cultural heritage, interactions with people and environment. Wilson's work propels us to “the space between our thoughts.” “I hope to create visual expressions that draw our attention back into the present … and reconnect our inner-selves.”

The artist's life has been marked by the ‘spaces between’ and his creative work is a vehicle to communicate and create interludes for others to step into, to stop and pause, to reconnect with the deeper, quieter parts of themselves. To observe, listen and deeply engage, not just ‘look at’. He traces his lineage from Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri and Nurangga Nations through his mother and Italian heritage from Umbria and Puglia through his father. His creative process awakens the artistic practice he inherits from both cultures. He employs the contemporary use of acrylics and the symbolic use of dots by Aboriginal artists using abstract form to express his deeper historical story and connection.

His work can evoke the feeling of looking at the night sky and seeing stars exploding in the galaxies as they create themselves. Through the physical rhythm of putting paint on the surface, the artist generates patterns and visual ripples that seem to move over the canvas in gentle bursts of energy that emerge from a central point.

Edited biography written by Chris Small.