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To say that the last two years were an intense period in Tony Lloyd’s professional—and to an extent personal—life would be an extreme understatement. After over a decade of professional practice, in 2010 Lloyd spread his wings somewhat as one of the founders of the independent, not-for-profit NotFair exhibition in Melbourne. Whilst he had previously acted as an independent writer and as contributing editor to the website ArtInfo.com.au, NotFair, established as an alternative to the Melbourne Art Fair, was a distinctly challenging mission. To make matters worse, he had to prepare for a major solo exhibition in June, 2011, and was also about to take off for a somewhat epic journey across the Top End of Australia and then from Beijing to Lhasa… a journey which was to start the day after the NotFair concluded.
People often talk about stress. Lloyd must have had his fair share of it.
As a matter of disclosure I must admit that I was involved in NotFair close to its inception and I was also party to the somewhat insane journey Lloyd took in mid-2010, the results of which were exhibited as part of the First Life Residency Project in Landscape at the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art in Beijing in 2011.1 That either makes me an ideal witness to these events or as fraught as Lloyd must have felt at times as he tackled these various deadlines.
At the same time I had been aware of Lloyd’s work for a considerable period, indeed, since his third solo exhibition, ‘In the Interim’ (1998), at Span Galleries, Melbourne. Since that time he has held an extraordinary twenty solo exhibitions in locations ranging... The rest of this article is available to subscribers of Eyeline