Tony Lloyd Artist
Tony Lloyd (born 1970) is an Australian contemporary artist. Lloyd's paintings are influenced by cinema, in particular Film Noir and Science Fiction, and the Romantic conception of the sublime. Lloyd's largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style.Lloyd currently resides in Melbourne, Australia. Lloyd acquired a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at RMIT University (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in 2000. His art has been showcased internationally in places such as Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Melbourne and London. He is the winner of the 2012 John Leslie Art Prize. The Prize is a prestigious award for landscape paintings that attracts artists from across Australia. He has been a finalist for other artistic awards, such as the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and the Arthur Guy Prize Bendigo Art Gallery award.