TONY AMENEIRO | prints & drawings
Tony Ameneiro is an artist and educator who uses both drawing and printmaking to develop and extend his ideas and images. His work reveals a sense of condensed observation with references to art history and is executed with great attention to detail. In series such as LOCATION and PARK EDGE, there is often a focus on symbols of place and the layering of culture and geography. Some of the more recent prints combine colour multi-plate printing and chine collé techniques, overlapping ideas and images with the use of Japanese papers and tissues.
Twice chosen by the Print Council of Australia as their commissioned print artist, and winner of the 2007 Fremantle Print Award, his prints are held in several State and Regional Gallery collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Queensland Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of South Australia and the State Library of Victoria.
Ameneiro's work "gives viewers a chance to see the possibilities of contemporary printmaking - the blurring of techniques and imagery combined with consummate skill in editioning and creativity." LOCATION exhibition catalogue - Glenn Barkley, Curator, University of Wollongong Art Collection.
Ameneiro practices and teaches drawing,
etching, relief (linocut) and lithography.
Currently teaches at Wollongong West TAFE and lives in the Southern Highlands
of NSW in Australia.