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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 nationalistic identity.

 

 

 

Wall
2004/09
oil paint on gesso ground
530 x 500mm

Light & Shade
2009
oil paint on gesso ground
1280 x 1540mm

Light & Shade (installation view)




Recall
2005
oil paint on gesso ground
1880 x 1280mm

The Departed
2004
oil paint on gesso ground
300 x 1300mm

Parade
2006
oil paint on gesso ground
1400 x 1100

Tree
2007
Oil paint and gold leaf with composition ornaments on gesso ground
1200x 800mm

Three Hearts
2002
Oil paint and 23k gold on gesso ground on board
700 x 2100mm

Three Hearts (detail of painting)




At Last Light
2006
Oil paint on gesso ground
400 x 1200mm

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

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

Table with Seven Bottles
2004
oil paint, composition ornaments and aluminium leaf on gesso ground
300 x 600mm

The Saints
2004
oil paint on gesso ground
1400 x 2200mm

Necklace
2004
oil paint on gesso ground
350 x 700mm

Cross
2002
oil paint gold leaf on gesso ground
620 x 2130 mm

The Divine
2007
oil paint on gesso ground
700 x 1000mm

Blue Veil
2005
Oil paint and schlagmetal on gesso ground
1440 x 1440mm

In Light
2005
Oil paint and gold leaf on gesso ground
600 x 775mm

Passion
2007
Oil paint on gesso ground
1800 x 1200mm

Prisoner of Love
2001
Oil paint on gesso ground
630 x 645mm

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

Gravity (detail)






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