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