Tony South - All Artworks

Another piece inspired by music, in this case it was The Lone pianist character, loosely based on Tom Waits. It’s a snapshot of reflection midst performance, the booze, the fedora, thin tie complete the character protected by the pensive in house security bulldog. A technically complex painting from an age old stereotype.

Gravity

Rock n Roll gone apeshit in this one, all the background given a blurred appearance to throw the Apeaxeman into the limelight. Capturing human movement and translating that into the structure of a gorilla was the aim here, as well as a smattering of self indulgence.

The Moloko Muscle

A parody from the “Clockwork Orange” movie, replacing Alex and his Droogs with Pigs, I used pigs a lot in my very early paintings with white backgrounds because they were a challenge to convey human characteristics. The car is fabricated and adorned digitally then drawn onto the canvas. Ultraviolence and swine, not something you see…

Jukebox Hero

A totally self indulgent nostalgia piece for me, things that rang true. The monkeys pose is pure Scott Weiland or Jagger whilst adorning a Paul Stanley eye star. All this iconography and sub culture played a fabulous role in my ascendancy into adulthood.

Phono

Following on from “No One Came” a more reflective mood, the bottle of wine bearing the “Hypno-chimp” logo.

Too Much Monkey Business

Trying to make an ape playing a guitar look natural and real was the mission here, from the emotion in the face to the holding of the Gretsch classic guitar, finished of with a shot of Malt Scotch.

No One Came

A change of mood came with this one, a more reflective and sober scenario, trying to achieve a more subtle tone of Human to ape assimilation.

The Great Troglato

One of a few paintings without a white background, heralding a dramatic landscape, crows circling the skies as a backdrop for “The Great Troglato”. A fictional character born of the old fairground attraction. The “Wall of Death” was one of those sideshows that I remember most vividly from my youth, the noise was outrageous and…