Thousands Amazing the Great is Anthony Lister's special exhibition that offers an amalgamation between issues and ideas, fueling his artwork. In this one of a kind exhibition, Anthony Lister delivers his sometimes cryptic and eclectic critiques of the societal mores. Audiences were in awe of the unique vision that Anthony Lister offered with a roller coaster ride into his imaginative world. With global exhibitions spanning over 15 years, Anthony Lister's superhero paintings were curated by Thousands Amazing the Great in its first-ever Australian institutional gallery. The retrospective reflec

Anthony Lister was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1979, and later completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Queensland College of the Arts. He helped pioneer the stencil and street art movement in Brisbane before moving to New York in 2003 to work with his mentor, Max Gimblett. He met the New Zealand-born artist at the opening of Gimblett’s major solo exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Anthony Lister brings the artwork to life with a masterful and beautiful movement. He employs his distinctive sharp and tiny brushwork to produce a tonal palette that pours life into his painting. Light and shadows compete within such pieces at the same time. Anthony Lister adopts a deliberate lack of control from his expressive approach to create an authentic and honest sense of tension and force obvious restrictions between the viewer and himself

Anthony Lister's studio artwork is a part of the dirt, motion, and rainwater as the wind suitably blows them. On the other hand, the art objects get polished and sterilized after they leave the personal domain of the artist and enter the formal galleries, where a more extensive audience sees them. These works leave Anthony Lister's street art qualities behind as they leave the studio.