Born 1979
Lives and works in Sydney, Los Angeles, New York
When Brisbane released Anthony Lister as a hostage to the legal system for his extraordinary beautification of what was otherwise another country town, he came to Sydney where all the creative DNA and spiritual memes within his imagination found an ideal concrete palette.
Sydney is the cauldron of witchcraft, with a pinch of creative criminology and endless outpourings of identity displacement and countless freaks and geeks without a cause, even the homeless adore Lister for adding to their skyline and ceilings—some fantastic things to look at from the gutter. Lister pours his paint over the places the public poor inhabit, Sydney is an enfant terrible’s playground where crime intercepts with crooked cops as a respected way of life, where he makes the ordinary become extraordinary with just a roller, spray-gun and the gift that Banksy described as “you appear to piss great art in your sleep”.
Lister has uncovered the dark mythology hidden under the Westfieldian plains, from the horned man of the ashes of Luna Park where Martin Sharp roamed for a while, where sniffer dogs nuzzle women’s crotches in search of drugs while the importers dine in mansions sublime, with bankers and merchants on harbor side balconies, their purchased wives laid out ‘like patients etherized upon a table’.
Most of all, Lister is democratic, he scorns hypocrisy and skates with dirty knotted haired street boys with the same panache as he brings to the rich man’s commissioned work.
Sydney is a slut with her legs wide open between the North and South Heads.
Charles Waterstreet
September, 2017
View the trailer for the documentary HAVE YOU SEEN THE LISTERS?- screened last month at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). "From award-winning filmmaker Eddie Martin comes an up-to-the-minute snapshot of the life and creative processes of outspoken ‘visual freedom fighter’ Anthony Lister, Australia’s most renowned street artist." MIFF
\ Exhibition featured works
Anthony Lister
Beauty spelt wrong
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 113x269cm
Anthony Lister
Christ with Didgeridoo
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 48x76.5cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Cute Buns
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 36.5x39cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Fashion Parade
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 140.5x256cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Fuck Flowers
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 61x37cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Geurnica Bull
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 37x61cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Horned Man of Luna Park
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 40x61cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Luna Park Fears
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 37.5x69cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Magic Doodle
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 40x61cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Moloch Rape Scene
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 48x76.5cm
Anthony Lister
New Bondage
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 37x61cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
No More Drama
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 62.5x37cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Selfie Breaking News
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 38x67cm
Anthony Lister
Shopping Trio
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 148.5x259cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
Stripper Asleep on the Pole
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 152x100cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
The Big Win
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 61x37cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
The Couple Trap
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 38x67cm
Anthony Lister
The Mysterious Anxiety
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 149x270cm
SOLD
Anthony Lister
The Return to Freedom
2017 \ Charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 149x271cm
Anthony Lister
cant wear a Zebra
2017 \ charcoal, spray paint, acrylic and oil stick on canvas \ 48x76cm
\ Other exhibitions
Sydney Contemporary Stand D05
Giles Alexander, Dianne Gall, Jonathan Dalton & Stuart McLachlan
13 September — 16 September 2018
12 - 14 Meagher Street
Chippendale, NSW 2008
Opening Hours
9am - 5pm Monday to Friday 11am - 4pm Saturday We will be open on Saturday 29 September but closed on Monday 1 October for the public holiday
9am - 5pm Monday to Friday 11am - 4pm Saturday We will be open on Saturday 29 September but closed on Monday 1 October for the public holiday