About the Artist
Tony Crosbie
b. 1956
Tony Crosbie was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1956. The self-taught artist was brought up in the inner city in a working-class family. Crosbie’s work deals with modern society, and is confrontational, expressive, passionate, and extremely personal – his life informs his work. Crosbie uses a multi-media palette, which includes painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, video, writing, and anything else he can get his hands on to express himself creatively. His first solo show in 1996 in Dublin, called New Beginning, was an autobiographical journey which dealt with the extremities of addiction and recovery. Crosbie uses his art to reveal the vulnerability and sometimes disturbing journey through his own life. His work, which is often described as confrontational and provocative, questions the definition of what art in fact is.
