Tony Lloyd’s paintings of mountain landscapes, endless highways, space exploration and nature reveal a timeless and enigmatic world. His use of monochrome heightens the emotional impact of his paintings and conjures an immersive realm of shadow and light.
Tony Lloyd began exhibiting while still an undergraduate student at RMIT University. Since gaining his Masters degree in 2001 Lloyd has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally. His paintings are in numerous public collections including the State Library of Victoria, Gippsland Art Gallery, RMIT Gallery, Artbank, the City of Boroondara and the City of Whitehorse. Lloyd’s work has featured in publications such as ART + Climate = Change from Melbourne University Press and New Romantics, Darkness and light in Australian Art by Simon Gregg. His works were also featured in ABC TV’s The A-Z of Contemporary Art.
Lloyd has had several artist residencies including at The British School at Rome, 24HR ART Beijing, Canvas International Art in the Netherlands and the Hawthorn Art Centre in Melbourne. There have been two survey exhibitions of Tony Lloyd’s work, Lost Highways at Gippsland Art Gallery in 1999 and High Plains Drift at Benalla Art Gallery in 2023 .
Lloyd has received recognitions for his work, winning the John Leslie Art Prize, the Belle Arti Prize, the Sulman Highly Commended prize, the Gold Coast Art prize People’s choice award, the Boy’s Choice award at the Kings School Art Prize, the RMIT Post Graduate Award, the Necia Gilbert Memorial Award as well as Development Grants from the Australia Council for the Arts and Regional Arts Victoria.
Solo Exhibitions
– Nocturnalux, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2025
– Deep Time, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2024
– High Plains Drift, Benalla Art Gallery, 2023
– The Garden of Forking Paths, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2022
– Overview, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2021
– Interglacial, MARS Gallery, Melbourne, 2018
– The Distance, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2017
– Elemental, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, 2016
– Slow Motion, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2014
– Other Worlds, DTG, Melbourne, 2013
– Here is Everywhere, Hill Smith Gallery, 2012
– All The Time In The World, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, 2012
– Into the Void, BP Melbourne, 2011
– The Drift, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, 2009
– Lost Highways (Survey exhibition 1999-2009), Gippsland Art Gallery Sale, Victoria, 2009
– Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 2008
– There Are More Things, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, 2008
– World Without End, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, 2008
– Canvas International Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 2007
– Things behind the Sun, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, 2006
– Afterglow, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney, 2006
– Distance, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney, 2005
– Motion Pictures, Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne, 2004
– Deep in the Woods, Michael Carr Art Dealer, Sydney, 2003
– Canvas International Art Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003
– Distraction, Arc One Melbourne, 2002
– Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra, 2002
– Detour, Span Galleries, Melbourne, 2002
– Painting After Films, Faculty Gallery (MA presentation), RMIT University, 2001
– Passages, Span Galleries, Melbourne, 2000
– In the Interim, Span Galleries, Melbourne, 1998
– First Site Gallery, RMIT, Melbourne, 1996
Select Group Exhibitions
– From MARS to Aotearoa, MARS Gallery, Aotearoa Art Fair, New Zealand, 2026
– Our Final Show, Gallery 9, Sydney, 2025
– Turner & Australia, Gippsland Art Gallery, 2025
– John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Art Gallery, 2024
– Hadley’s Art Prize, Hobart, 2024
– Arthur Guy Memorial Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2024
– Between the Moon and the Stars, Museum And Gallery NT Darwin, 2020
– Analogue Art in a Digital World, RMIT University Gallery, 2019
– Focal Point: New realist painting, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, 2018
– IMAGINE, Gippsland Art Gallery, 2018
– Telaesthesia, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, 2017
– timeFRAME, Justin Art House Museum, 2017
– Unworldly Encounters, AEAF Adelaide, 2016
– Imagined Worlds, Town Hall Gallery, Melbourne, 2016
– Flying, K35 Gallery, Moscow, 2016
– Art in Chemistry, Chemistry in Art Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House London, 2014
– Conquest of Space, COFA, UNSW, Sydney, 2014
– Insight Radical, Future Space Gallery, The Science Exchange Adelaide, The Griffin Gallery, London
– New Horizons, Gippsland Art Gallery, 2013
– First Life, Chan Contemporary Art Centre, Darwin, 2012
– 2112 Imagining The Future, RMIT University Gallery, 2012
– New Romantics, Gippsland Art Gallery, 2011
– Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2011
– Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, 2011
– COMODAA, London, 2010
– Extropian, Sullivan & Strumpf Fine Art Sydney, 2009
– Tempo Reale, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2008
– HEAT: Art and Climate Change, RMIT University Gallery, 2008
– Transit, The British School at Rome, Italy, 2007
– Oneindige Landschappen, Loods 6 Amsterdam, 2004
– Exhibit 001, Nth Art London, 2003
– Depth of Field, Shepparton Art Gallery & Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2003
– Melbourne X, Canberra C.A.S. & Sydney College of the Arts, 2003
Awards
– Boy's Choice Award, Kings School Art Prize, 2016
– Belle Arti Prize, 2014
– Highly Commended Sulman Prize, AGNSW, 2014
– John Leslie Art Prize, 2012
– People's Choice, Gold Coast Art Prize, 2005
– Necia Gilbert Memorial Award, 2019