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                    Anthony Sawrey

                    Test Sites: Round 5

                    Environmental painting of design on grassed slope
                    Anthony’s principal interest is painting though he has also worked as a comics and storyboard illustrator and writes
                    regularly.

                    ​​​​​In 2008, after a stint working with professional grass signage painters, he incorporated the practice into his artistic oeuvre and today environment painting is his principal medium.

                    ​He has executed his designs around Australia from the coast to the desert, and has a built up a large array of documentary images as a record of their brief existence. Anthony currently lives with his girlfriend Amanda in Bullarto, Victoria: a gloriously cold place where multitudes of painting possibilities await him in the surrounding paddocks and bush.

                    ​Anthony Sawrey was born in Australia, growing up in Queensland and Victoria. He studied at Sydney College of the arts and Victoria College of the Arts.

                    Imaginary City

                    The Birrarung Marr site was an exciting location to do an environment painting with the challenge being to create a work large enough to do justice to the dimensions of the surrounding park lands, but at the same time be completed within a specific time frame and budget.

                    I decided that an interpretation of a suburban map would be suitable in such a built up location as the painting’s geometry would find echoes in the architectural features nearby. However, at over 2500sqm in total area, Imaginary Cities was not a painting that could be viewed in its entirety from any one vantage point, so audience interpretation of the installation differed immensely. This was one of the most interesting findings coming out of the project since the design's array of a circles and intersecting lines led to varying readings: ranging from a target for parachutists to a massive spiders web.​

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