2006 Feature Artist

Lloyd Wilday

Lloyd Wilday is a contemporary artist who uses photography to explores the relationship between industrialization and nature and the harmony that exists between the two.

He has dabbled in various art forms all his life but it wasn't until he was behind the lens of his first camera, did he discover a medium that would help him capture, what he describes as, the spectacular in the mundane.

The Burnie Shines feature artist must produce a work entitled " Burnie Shines" and Lloyd's black and white image is of Burnie's loved coastal landmark, Blinking Billy, shining out to sea at dusk with Table Cape in the background.
Most of the works in the exhibition have a minimalist approach to texture and colour letting the form tell the story in this collection of limited edition, photographic prints.

The exhibition can be divided into two, with one group of images depicting forms created by human impact on the rural landscape, and the other group depicting the complexities, forms and structures of industrialization.

Lloyd's earlier photography has toured in two exhibitions with Tasmanian Regional Arts including "Kids Up Close" and "Divine Buildings" depicting old and distinguished churches of North West Tasmania.

Lloyd travelled with his family from England as an infant, and spent his formative years moving frequently in Australia and overseas because his father was in the RAAF. Lloyd followed his father's footsteps into the air force studying aircraft communications and navigation systems.

In 1990 he left the force and moved to Tasmania and has worked in Burnie as a service engineer ever since. Photography is a relatively recent medium for Lloyd, and we hope to have the opportunity to see further exhibitions as he explores the shapes and patterns that make up the North West Coast of Tasmania.