Toby Zoates Hard Art | Artist
Toby Zoates Hard Art
Phone: +61 410 187 762
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25.01.2022 My latest show, presented by Damien Minton at the Sheffer Gallery Darlington, shared with Martin Sharp and titled "My City of Sydney", was a huge success as far as Im concerned, a big crowd came, I sold a few works and, best of all, many people congratulated me, told me I was very "street" and that my art and life inspired them.
25.01.2022 Created from 1977 On... available in prints A4, A3, A2, A1 or as original acrylic paintings and silk-screen posters. Order from [email protected]
23.01.2022 "Sons of Morons" = pencil and ink on paper: Nov and Dec 2019
22.01.2022 Dont forget, opening this Monday July 2 at 6 to 9pm for 3 weeks, at Joe and the Juice, Macleay St Potts Point, "Art in the Hood" which includes 2 of my works.
22.01.2022 To celebrate the actual date of the 40th anniversary of "THE RIOT" and Mardi Gras Party I have nearly killed myself creating a Commemorative poster
21.01.2022 "My City of Sydney" - Street Art and More by Martin Sharp and Toby Zoates, two artists from opposite sides of the tracks united in their passion for wall-papering Sydney with their heartfelt socio-political concerns. Coming soon Feb 19 (6 to 8 pm opening, then 11 am to 6 pm till Sat Feb 23) at The Sheffer Gallery, 38 Lander St. Darlington Sydney!
21.01.2022 Late 70s, signed silk-screen poster : [email protected]
17.01.2022 Detail from Commemorative Poster for 78ers June 24 40th anniversary.
17.01.2022 I create art such as this as I believe its my duty as an artist to comment upon, critique, satirize, inform, subvert and protest the egregious shit raining down upon society such as lying, cheating, stealing, spying, environmental destroying and minority torturing politicians/neo-liberal capitalists ruling us today. All else is rubbish, wall-paper, commercial packaging and arse-wipe crap!!! 2020... coloured pencil and ink on paper. (Sorry for the diatribe, in the middle of the night it all gets to me and I have a breakdown, spitting chips!)
17.01.2022 I am sorry to announce that, due to working hard at art, late into the night, at an advanced age, I have had a "nervous breakdown" and have been acting erratically, (more than usual!) I will now have to take a break for a month. (I know, few give a shit. Oh, well, boo boo hoo!) Anti-Authoritarian Calendar 1981.
16.01.2022 Ive worked on this show, hard, for the last 7 months. If one doesnt have photos of the times then paintings, from the heart, can cover it, the more the merrier. There is no competition, historical exactitude or being "better than thou", most artists die broke and ignominious, there is just the high of creating, it beats being an arms dealer or a politician.
13.01.2022 1978, when we lefties considered Malcolm Fraser a tyrant!
13.01.2022 A3 poster from my 3rd one person show, in a Redfern terrace house in 1997
13.01.2022 Considering the ghastly plans to dump nuclear waste in the Flinders Ranges heres an old graphic of mine on the subject of nuclear waste storage in Auz from 1980.
11.01.2022 "Sniffer Dogs" detail from much larger work "LGBQTA Mardi Gras Party" (2018 - pencil and ink on paper.)
10.01.2022 I have a good life anyway. Come to my show in October 2019 if you want signed prints or original paintings.
09.01.2022 In the Garden of Pan 1987 - acrylic on chipboard.
07.01.2022 In the shadow of High Capitalist Fascism - 1984
07.01.2022 Life for the Poor is a Constant Beat Up 1983 Signed and dated prints available, same price as all the others. Only two beautiful women have bought prints and thats because they are really good souls!
05.01.2022 Way back when; we cared about what happened to prisoners inside State-run concentration camps and actively fought it, (I got arrested barricading myself, with Women Behind Bars, into the Screws Union Office.) It still applies today of course, only it includes those camps on Manus and Narau for refugees. [email protected]
03.01.2022 Poster for a video magazine I did for UTS Communications around 1986.
