Tony Ameneiro b. 1959

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Ameneiro is an artist, printmaker and educator. He also works with watercolour and drawing and has been a three-time finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing (2003, 2006 & 2012). He was the winner of the Fremantle Print Award in 2007.
Tags: Printmaking, Dobell Drawing Prize, Printmaker
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Artist-printmaker, draughtsman and watercolourist, Tony Ameneiro was born in 1959 in London to Spanish parents. Ameneiro immigrated to Australia in 1968. He studied art at the Alexander Mackie College of Advanced Education in Sydney, NSW, from 1978-81.

Ameneiro began exhibiting in Sydney in 1984 with his solo exhibition titled 'Camouflaged Cakes’ at the James Harvey Gallery in Newtown, after which he continued to exhibit in solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe and the United States.

In 2007 he held a solo exhibition titled 'Skulls and Lilies, Lilies and Skulls’ at the Marianne Newman Gallery in Sydney.

Ameneiro has been a three-time finalist in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2003, 2006 and 2012) and in 2007 he received the Fremantle Print Award.

His commissions include the 2001 and 2006 Annual Member Print Commission for the Australian Print Council.

Writers:
Ameneiro, Tony
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Date written:
2009
Last updated:
2013