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Tony Lane

With a career that spans more than thirty years, Tony Lane is one of New Zealand’s most respected painters. In1970 Tony attended Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland graduating with a Diploma of Fine Art. Since this time Lane has exhibited extensively in New Zealand and internationally.

He depicts objects in this paintings that are part of our daily lives; a table with a wine bottle, a chair, a linen cloth, a beaded necklace, a coil of rope; ‘common and garden’ forms which suggest a myriad of cultural, religious and personal meanings. These paintings are visual slow burners, they are in no way fast or faddish, what they are is intelligent and magical, and what they do is keep on confounding expectations

As a painter Lane, reminds us that as Pakeha New Zealanders  we are historically connected to a  larger European and Western cultural context,
something that is often overlooked in the search for a national identity.

 

 

 

Chandelier & Table
2011
oil paint, gold & aluminium leaf on gesso ground
750 x 1050mm

Chandelier & Table (detail)




Chandelier & Table (installation)




Swan and Heart
2010
oil paint on linen & gold leaf on wood
1070 x 1090mm

Swan and Heart (detail)




Swan and Heart (installation)




Holy
2010
oil paint on linen & gold leaf on wood
1200 x 600mm

Holy (detail)




Holy (installation)




Pure
2011
oil paint on canvas & gold leaf on wood
2040 x 1440mm

Pure (detail)




Pure (installation)




Breathe
2010
oil paint on linen & gold leaf on wood
1530 x 960mm

Breathe (detail)




Breathe (installation)




Laurel
2011
oil paint on linen & gold leaf on wood
1670 x 1560mm

Laurel (detail)




Laurel (installation)




Float
2010
oil paint on canvas and gold leaf on wood
1200 x 960mm

Float (detail)




Float (installation view)




Gravity
2002-09
silver leaf, schlagmetal & oil paint on panel
760 x 2600mm

Gravity (detail)




Gravity (installation view)




Passion
2007
oil paint on gesso ground
1800 x 1200mm

Passion (detail)




Passion (installation)




Necklace
2004
oil paint on gesso ground
350 x 700mm

Necklace (detail)




Element Air
1994
oil paint, schlagmetal on gesso ground
2000 x 120mm

Element Air (detail)




Rope & Stones
1994
oil paint, schlagmetal on gesso ground
120 x 2000mm



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