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Artist Interview: Tony Kearney

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In this episode, Steph caught up with photographic artist Tony Kearney at his home in Port Adelaide. Tune in to hear about his journey to photography, his highly-acclaimed portrait work, competing with pigeons for exhibition space in Hart’s Mill, and that time he took 180 rolls of film through multiple airport x-ray machines en route to Syria.

Show Notes

  • Kodak Instamatic
  • Reticulation, bas relief
  • Bakelite
  • Mug Shots
  • Fixer, developer, stop bath – photographic chemicals
  • Atkins Lab
  • Kodachrome
  • Marden Senior College
  • Tarnanthi Festival
  • National Railway Museum
  • Olive Cotton Award / 2021 Exhibition Catalogue
  • Bowness Prize / finalist images 2021
  • Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize
  • National Portrait Gallery London
  • David Prichard’s portraits of Australian First Nations stock women win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021 [article]
  • Tony Kearney, Jacob, 2020
  • ‘Dignified, strong, beautiful’: the year’s best portrait photography – in pictures (The Guardian) [article]
  • High Ground (2020) imdb
  • The 2021 Bowness photography prize selected finalists – in pictures (The Guardian) [article]
  • tonykearneyportraiture.com
  • 3 of Tony’s portraits in NPG collection
  • Vitalstatistix
  • Laneway Festival
  • Tony’s photograph of @BillieEilish
  • Tony’s photograph of @AuroraMusic
  • Tony Kearney, Linda Syddick Tjunggkiya Napaltjarri, 2017, inkjet print on paper, image: 66.2cm x 66.2cm, purchased by NPG (Australia) in 2017
    • Tony Kearney, Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri, 2017, inkjet print on paper, image: 66.2cm x 66.1cm, purchased by NPG (Australia) in 2017
  • Tangentyere Art Centre
  • Rust, ‘The corrosion of culture and the culture of corrosion’
  • ‘Chandie’ by Deb Jones & Christine Cholewa
  • Syria Lost
  • Hart’s Mill
    • ...more
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