Aboriginal Boxer

ARTIST: Anthony Lister

DATE: TBC

Most well known for his street art, Anthony Lister is a contemporary Australian-born painter and installation artist, best known for his merging of “high” and “low” cultural imagery in his work.

Born in 1979 in Brisbane, Australia, he studied at the Queensland College of Art. Lister helped pioneer the street art movement in his home city as a teenager and is considered Australia’s premier street artist. His scrawling, figurative style employs charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and oil. “The first rule of painting is to take everyone else out of the equation,” he has said. “I am the viewer, so I don’t underestimate my viewers. They see everything and I just have to assume that they are me. I can’t paint for anyone else.”

His exhibitions include those held at the New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami, Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York and Black Art Projects in Melbourne. Lister currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.

Anthony Lister's Aboriginal boxer is located on Cleveland Street on the facade of Work-Shop. The mural is located a few streets behind the Tony Mundine Elouera Gymnasium at Redfern, which is currently closed. As such, it may pay homage to this place and it's role in the community. It may also be a reference more broadly to the role of boxing in Redfern, including in the Tribal Warrior's Clean Slate without Prejudice program.

Description from; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lister