Tony Pridham

Tony has an international reputation as one of the world’s leading painters of birds.
His work hangs in many important galleries devoted to the genre including the Hiram
Blauvelt and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson.

The world-renowned “Birds in Art” show held each year in Wisconsin, USA has
exhibited Tony’s work 12 times. Tony’s originals have been sold through all the main
auction houses including Sotheby’s, Bonhams, and Christies.

A keen naturalist Tony’s art has been featured in several important publications devoted to
birds most notably “Grass finches in Australia”, which received the coveted Whitley
award in 2012.

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The artist is also well known for his Equine Art. Having been commissioned to paint Melbourne Cup winners like Media Puzzle to recent champions like Black Caviar. He brings the same degree of accuracy and observation to his horse art , as he does to his Birds. Tony's painting of champion horse Wakeful hangs in Victoria’s Racing Museum.

 

In recent years Tony has begun expressing himself with figurative charcoals.