Time travelling through carvings in concrete, pushing shapes with the nib of a pen, interpreting the drunken ramblings of Francis Bacon, Anthony Lister's painterly world is playful, provocative and puzzling.
Born in 1979, Anthony Lister is already described as "Australia's best contemporary artist". In addition to a strong background in street art he employs a sophisticated painterly style. High and low culture clash in the content of his paintings, drawings and installations – boorish superheroes, flirtatious ballet dancers, bad-tempered old masters and imperious vamps raucously coexist at the party rapidly deteriorating inside Anthony Lister's head.
To us he may be a painter, a public interventionist or a graffiti artist but to himself, he is an atom, shaking in the streets, trying to make sense of a world he is not sure how to grow old in. "Things are all just shapes, we are all just channels", says Lister.
