Troy-Anthony Baylis b. 1976

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Textile Artist / Fashion Designer),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Painter)
Since graduating with an Honours Visual Art degree in 1997, Troy-Anthony Baylis has exhibited widely in Australia and overseas. His art practice draws from popular culture icons such as Andy Warhol, Kylie Minogue and Barbara Cartland. He is also a pioneer of contemporary art knitting.
Tags: Drag, queer art, knitting
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creator of
Genuine Aboriginal Art
Medium
Installation/digital image
 
creator of
Emotional Sunset series
 
creator of
Emotional Sunset 5
Tags
Sunset, Knitted

50cm x 50cm

 
creator of
Installations for Tomorrow (Hang On)
Date
Medium
Pigmented inks on 310gsm Hahnemuhle German etching paper, ed 5

70 × 100cm

 
creator of
Postcard
Date
Medium
Reconstructed faux-mesh, Glomesh
Tags
Glomesh, Faux-Mesh, Sistas, Breastplates
 
creator of
Making Camp at 'Forest, Cunningham's Gap, 1856'
Date
Medium
Pigmented inks on 310gsm Hahnemuhle paper.
Tags
Appropriation, Collage, Colonial

Edition of 5

29.5 × 42cm

'Each layer is from a different historical and cultural background and in bringing them together the new work queers them with complex, unsettling and playful juxtapositions of signs and meanings.’ Troy-Anthony Baylis, Queerly Speaking, Artlink vol 32 #2 [2012]

 
creator of
Tomorrow
Date
Tags
Dilly Bag, Knitted
 
creator of
Making Camp at 'A billabong of the Goulbourn, Victoria, 1884'
Date
Medium
Pigmented inks on 310gsm Hahnemuhle paper.

Ed 5, 29.5 × 42cm 'Each layer is from a different historical and cultural background and in bringing them together the new work queers them with complex, unsettling and playful juxtapositions of signs and meanings.’ Troy-Anthony Baylis, Queerly Speaking, Artlink vol 32 #2 [2012]

 
creator of
Making Camp at 'Evening Shadows, backwater of the river Murray, South Australia, 1880'
Date
Medium
Pigmented inks on 310gsm Hahnemuhle paper.
Tags
Murray

Ed 5, 29.5 × 42cm 'Each layer is from a different historical and cultural background and in bringing them together the new work queers them with complex, unsettling and playful juxtapositions of signs and meanings.’ Troy-Anthony Baylis, Queerly Speaking, Artlink vol 32 #2 [2012]

 
creator of
Making Camp at 'Landscape near Ullswater, 1820s'
Date
Medium
Pigmented inks on 310gsm Hahnemuhle paper.

Ed 5, 29.5 × 42cm 'Each layer is from a different historical and cultural background and in bringing them together the new work queers them with complex, unsettling and playful juxtapositions of signs and meanings.’ Troy-Anthony Baylis, Queerly Speaking, Artlink vol 32 #2 [2012]

 
creator of
Am an animal and a plant
Date
Medium
Knitted and embroidered acrylic
 
creator of
Sunset Trees Installation
Date
Note: Tiergarten, Berlin
 
creator of
8 Sunsets
Date
Medium
knitted acrylic
 
creator of
Emotional Landscape 8
Date
Medium
Oil on canvas
Tags
Landscape, Emotional, Kisses

100cm x 100cm

 
creator of
Emotional Landscape 12
Date
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Tags
Emotional, Landscape, Kisses

198 × 168cm

 
creator of
Emotional Landscape 6
Date
Medium
Oil on canvas

45 × 45cm

 
creator of
Emotional Landscape 4
Date
Medium
Oil on canvas

45cm x 45cm

 
creator of
Emotional Landscape 5
Date
Medium

45cm x 45cm

 
creator of
(pink) Poles series
Date
Medium
Tags
Burial Poles
 

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Other occupations
  • Course Coordinator of Aboriginal Cultures, Comparative Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Philosophy (ANZSIC code: 8102) -
  • Curator & Manager (ANZSIC code: 891) - Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, Adelaide, SA
  • Course Coordinator of Aboriginal Cultures, Comparative Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Philosophy -
Tags
  • Drag
  • queer art
  • knitting
Cultural heritages
  • Irish