About

Tony Clark is best known for his moody, romantic landscape paintings that both reference and react against the Old Masters. Clark emerged as an artist in late-1970s Melbourne, at a time when the DIY aesthetic prevailed. Self-taught as an artist, with an academic background in art history, Clark was associated with the artists and musicians centred around the St Kilda scene – in particular, Nick Cave and Howard Arkley. Defiantly, and with a punk spirit, Clark pursued landscape painting, despite it being out of fashion at the time. Since then, Clark has devoted himself to interrogating the …