Toni Wilkinson

Toni Wilkinson uses the camera to reveal beauty and menace in her images. The works cross genres to interrogate the world from a maternal, feminist perspective and testify to photography’s unique capacity for ambiguity.

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Maria with Crayfish Platter and Pomegranates, 2022, archival digital print on Canson Photographique paper, 150 x 118cm, ed. 5
Maria with Crayfish Platter and Pomegranates, 2022, archival digital print on Canson Photographique paper, 150 x 118cm, ed. 5 | Toni Wilkinson

Born in London Toni Wilkinson is a photographer based in Perth, Western Australia.

She uses the camera to reveal beauty and menace in her images. The works cross genres to interrogate the world from a maternal, feminist perspective and testify to photography’s unique capacity for ambiguity.

Toni Wilkinson’s approach to photography offers an opening for risk and possibility via the image, that is enhanced with each photograph's relationship to the next. Interconnections and contradictions collide in a practice that thrives on an urgent way of looking.

Toni Wilkinson is coordinator of Photography and Illustration at the School of Design and Built Environment, Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University in Western Australia. Toni has exhibited internationally and widely throughout Australia and her photographs are held in significant national collections such as the National Portrait Gallery, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, City of Perth, Murdoch University, Edith Cowan University, St John of God Health Care and others. She completed her PhD in 2012 and is a current board member of the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

'A double gesture of seizing the familiar, but only so as to possibly recreate it, is one of the greatest strengths of Toni Wilkinson’s photography ... Such a spirit of ‘staying with the trouble’ resounds in Wilkinson’s photography, as she is able to both arrest our gaze and transform our sense of the shared muddle of images and forms that make up public spaces.'
F Russell, Eyeline 87 Magazine, 2017.

Kira with Life Savers, 2003 Toni Wilkinson, Kira with Life Savers, 2003, archival digital print on Canson Photographique paper, 70 x 56cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Denise with Jam Doughnut, 2003, archival digital print on Canson Photographique, 150 x 118cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Maria with Crayfish Platter and Pomegranates, 2022, archival digital print on Canson Photographique paper, 150 x 118cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Body, 2020, archival digital print, 118 x 79cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Wardong - The Watcher, 2019, Canson photographiquw archival digital print, 160 x 120cm
Toni Wilkinson, Brisbane Place, 2018, Canson photographique archival digital print, 158 x 105cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Georgia in my Bed, 2018, Canson photographique archival digital print, 105 x 70cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, In the Sea, 2018, Canson photographique archival digital print, 158 x 105cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, All Saints, 2018, archival photographic print, 105 x 158cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, The Upper Reaches, 2018, Canson photographique archival digital print, 105 x 70cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Lovekin Raven, 2017, archival digital print, 103 x 81cm
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Toni Wilkinson, Queen Victoria, 2014, archival digital print, 53.5 x 42cm, ed. 5
Tony Wilkinson, Boab, 2014, archival digital print, 53.5 x 42cm, ed. 5
Toni Wilkinson, Descendants, 2017, Giclee print, 82 x 124cm
Toni Wilkinson, Women at the Lookout, 2017, archival digital print
Toni Wilkinson, Intentional Introduction, 2014, archival digital print, 42 x 53.5cm
Toni Wilkinson, Uncertain Surrenders #8, 2005, archival digital print, 127 x 100cm, ed. 5.
Toni Wilkinson, Scarlett with Banana, 2022, archival digital print on Canson Photographique paper, 150 x 118cm, ed. 5

Exhibition

Toni Wilkinson // Tough Pleasures

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