Anthony Lister 'Street Face' Print Available

Artist: Anthony Lister
Title: Street Face
Medium: Deckled Edge Giclee Print
Size: 21 x 21 cm
Edition: 50
Price: $250

 

Anthony Lister is an Australian contemporary artist born in Brisbane in 1979 who helped pioneer the nation’s street art movement as a teenager. He studied at Queensland College of Art and later worked under influential New Zealand painter Max Gimblett in New York, an experience that sharpened his fusion of high and low culture. Using charcoal, acrylic, spray paint and oil, he creates raw, expressionist works that straddle street art, pop culture and classical figuration. His canvases and walls burst with masked superheroes, burlesque dancers and fragmented portraits rendered in a scratchy, gestural style that critics compare to early Basquiat.

Lister's public murals appear across Sydney, Melbourne, London and Berlin, while solo exhibitions at Urban Spree Gallery, Robert Fontaine Gallery and Olsen Gallery have cemented his international reputation. Commercial collaborations include Hermès, Vogue Australia, Samsung and Mercedes-Benz, yet he continues to paint unauthorized walls, arguing that “public places are for public people” and describing himself as a “freedom fighter for visual speech”. His work is held by the National Gallery of Australia and the David Roberts Collection, and the 2017 documentary Have You Seen the Listers? chronicles his rise from skateboard kid to global art phenomenon. Bold, sometimes unsettling and always immediate, Anthony Lister’s art invites viewers to embrace chaos and to find beauty in the blurred line between gallery and gutter.