Tony de Lautour

Tony de Lautour was born in Melbourne in 1965. He studied at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1988 and continues to live in Christchurch.

He has exhibited regularly throughout New Zealand since 1990 and in 1995 received the Premier Award in the Visa Gold Art Award.

He began his career by investigating cultural identity as represented in the art of tattoos and cartoon imagery. He later began taking pictures he had found in garage sales and re-working them by adding other images to express his own views. His work is quirky and full of dark humour.

His work is part of many private and public collections.