Anthony Lister

Anthony Lister (born 1980) is a contemporary Australian artist.[1] Lister helped pioneer the street art movement in his home city as a teenager.[1][2] His scrawling, figurative style employs charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and oil. His exhibitions include those held at the Urban Spree Gallery in Berlin, Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, Allouche Gallery in New York, Olsen Gallery in Sydney and Black Art Projects in Melbourne. In 2020, he was charged with drugging and raping women. One of his accusers claimed he tattooed her while she was unconscious.

Anthony Lister
Born1980 (age 41–42)
Brisbane, Australia
NationalityAustralian
EducationBachelor of Fine Arts, apprenticed under Max Gimblett (2002)
Notable work
Ballerinas, Superheroes, Figurative works, Live Installation
MovementFine Art, Lowbrow (art movement), Street Art
Websitewww.anthonylister.com

Personal life

Lister was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1980. He grew up in the Brisbane suburb of Keperra. Lister attended Mitchelton State High School.[3]

Lister began painting at the age of 17. He was encouraged and influenced by his grandmother who had been a painter herself for over 80 years. After graduating high school he went on to study at GRIFFITHS University’s, Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, from which he then graduated in 2001. Shortly after graduating, Lister traveled to New York, where he found mentorship under Max Gimblett, one of New Zealand's most influential living artists.[4]

Lister has since exhibited his work extensively within Australia and internationally both in the gallery and on the streets, notably with Bogan Paradise, a three-story exhibition in a disused sex shop in Sydney, Australia 2011, Los Angeles USA solo exhibition curated by Roger Gatsman 2011, Los Angeles solo show New Image Art 2011 and Unslung Heros, The Outsiders/Lazarides Gallery, London and Newcastle, UK 2012. Lister's estranged wife and two children are featured in his "Have You Seen Them? The Listers" stickers. Photos and videos of his children are often seen in the "New" section of his official website.[5]

Lister was arrested and remanded in jail in 2020, accused of drugging and raping several young women, plus drugs and firearm charges. He was released on bail, and as of April 2021 is awaiting trial in Australia.[6][7]

Career

One of Australia's most internationally renowned contemporary artists,[1] Lister's work presents a grimy fusion of high and lowbrow culture with influences from a number of areas and genres, including street art, expressionism, pop art, and contemporary youth culture, often drawing from television and the "misguided role models" that result. Revelling in the "spirituality" and the "heritage" of Western popular culture he takes this joint legacy and remoulds it into something equally alluring and grotesque, a perfect representation of the society he seeks to depict. These works are seen in galleries across the globe with solo exhibitions across Australia, United States, Europe and UK.[8]

Taking influence from the dirtier and rough techniques of "Bad" Painting and merging it with the spirit and practices of graffiti art Lister has embraced an explosive, scratchy, scrawling form of figurative aesthetic using a variety of mediums from painting, drawing and installation to film, music and VR technology.

He is notable within the Lowbrow (art movement) and has been featured on Juxtapoz, Vogue, WoosterCollective and Highsnobiety. Commercially, Anthony Lister has worked with various international fashion, lifestyle and technological brands such as Hermès, The Standard Hotel, Westfield, Vogue Australia, Samsung and Mercedes-Benz. He has also collaborated with many well-known artists and personalities including Blek le Rat, Space Invader, Mark "Chopper" Reid and Nick Cave.

Noted as one of the top 50 most collectable Australian artists, Lister's work is included in the collections of National Gallery of Australia, David Roberts Collection, TVS Partnership, Brand & Slater Architects, Brisbane Grammar School, BHP Collection and Art Bank Australia.

Documentary-maker Eddie Martin is releasing a film about the value of self-expression, told through the life of Anthony Lister. In 2016 Screen Australia announced that "Lister - Adventure

Painter" as well as 9 other documentaries will share in more than $2.54 million of funding from the agency's Documentary Producer Program and the Documentary Broadcast program.[9] The film is currently in post-production and to be released in August 2017.[10]

Bibliography
YEAR TITLE PUBLISHER
2015 Public Spaces: Public People Griffith Law Journal, AUS
2014 Anthony Lister: Adventure Painter by Roger Gastman Gingko Press, USA
2013 Anthony Lister Sketchbook - 10 Years of Selected Drawings Blackarts Projects
2010 Beyond The Street- The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art Gestalten, USA
2010 Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Art Taschen, USA
2010 Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art Rizzoli Books, USA
2010 Anthony Lister Macmillan Art Publishing, AUS
2009 Tales of White Trash Prophecy Upper Playground, USA
2008 God Has a Plan to Kill Me KGallery, Italy
2007 Uncommissioned Art Melbourne University, AUS
2007 Alarmi3 Vanilla edizioni, Italy
2006 Unfinished Journey Macmillan Art Publishing, AUS
2006 The Guild Seven Nine Press, AUS
2005 Anthony Lister: Twice On Sundays Fox Galleries Publications, AUS
2005 I NY, New York Street Art Verlag GmbH &Co. KG, GER
2005 Conform Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, AUS
2004 Anthony Lister Subtitled DVD Fox Galleries Publications, AUS
2003 Places & Things Fox Galleries Publications, AUS

References
  1. "The 50 Most Influential Street Artists of All Time39. Anthony Lister". Complex AU. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  2. Smith, Jed (16 March 2015). "Anthony Lister street art: The blurred line between crime and culture". News.com.au — Australia's Leading News Site. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  3. "Anthony Lister". Widewalls. Retrieved 12 May 2018.
  4. http://www.lostateminor.com/2017/10/16/interview-anthony-lister-brisbane-street-artist-became-international-fine-art-sensation/
  5. Anthony Lister website, new Archived 24 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Costin, Luke (9 July 2020). "NSW artist to go to trial". The Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
  7. "Street artist Anthony Lister charged with obscene Roxy Jacenko graffiti". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
  8. Anthony Lister Interview, retrieved on 2 August 2007.
  9. "Screen Australia invests over $2.5 million in 10 docos". if.com.au. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
  10. "LISTER - ADVENTURE PAINTER". www.screenaustralia.gov.au.
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