Artist Interview: Tony Kearney

In this episode, Steph caught up with photographic artist Tony Kearney at his home in Port Adelaide. Tune in to hear about his journey to photography, his highly-acclaimed portrait work, competing with pigeons for exhibition space in Hart’s Mill, and that time he took 180 rolls of film through multiple airport x-ray machines en route to Syria.

Show Notes

• Kodak Instamatic


• Reticulation, bas relief


• Bakelite


• Mug Shots


• Fixer, developer, stop bath – photographic chemicals


• Atkins Lab


• Kodachrome


• Marden Senior College


• Tarnanthi Festival


• National Railway Museum


• Olive Cotton Award / 2021 Exhibition Catalogue


• Bowness Prize / finalist images 2021


• Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize


• National Portrait Gallery London


• David Prichard’s portraits of Australian First Nations stock women win the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021 [article]


• Tony Kearney, Jacob, 2020


• ‘Dignified, strong, beautiful’: the year’s best portrait photography – in pictures (The Guardian) [article]


• High Ground (2020) imdb


• The 2021 Bowness photography prize selected finalists – in pictures (The Guardian) [article]


• tonykearneyportraiture.com


• 3 of Tony’s portraits in NPG collection


• Vitalstatistix


• Laneway Festival


• Tony’s photograph of @BillieEilish


• Tony’s photograph of @AuroraMusic


• Tony Kearney, Linda Syddick Tjunggkiya Napaltjarri, 2017, inkjet print on paper, image: 66.2cm x 66.2cm, purchased by NPG (Australia) in 2017
  
  Tony Kearney, Wentja Morgan Napaltjarri, 2017, inkjet print on paper, image: 66.2cm x 66.1cm, purchased by NPG (Australia) in 2017


• Tangentyere Art Centre


• Rust, ‘The corrosion of culture and the culture of corrosion’


• ‘Chandie’ by Deb Jones & Christine Cholewa


• Syria Lost


• Hart’s Mill