Tony Tran is an emerging contemporary artist who recently graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New South Wales. His artistic practice revolves around using the mediums of sculpture and photography to construct images with numinous intensities stemming from the recesses of his psyche and imagination that gleans upon intertwining and abstracting his Asian identity within a westernized culture. He is born and raised in Sydney from his immigrated Vietnamese parents.
His works often respond to a yearning to seek new spiritual representation and iconography through navigating the landscape of cultural alienation and secular pessimism. Hence, his practice consists of making re-imagined altar-like images and sculptures that attempt to merge and collapse disparate myths, cultures and ideas of classicism from pan-Asian and European influences as a means to cultivate a new cultural identity. His iterative process of creating sculptural dioramas are achieved through digitally sculpting the forms, 3d printing the designs, painting, lighting, photographing then digitally manipulating the images resulting a visual concoction that features fragmented chimeras of faceless angels, humanoid deities and orchestrated implosions of fractal behemoths.
