Career
Lloyd"s paintings are influenced by cinema, in particular Film Noir and Science Fiction, and the Romantic conception of the sublime. Lloyd"s largely monochromatic paintings are realist in style. Lloyd currently resides in Melbourne, Australia.
Lloyd acquired a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) in 2000.
His art has been showcased internationally in places such as Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Melbourne and London. The Prize is a prestigious award for landscape paintings that attracts artists from across Australia.
He has been a finalist for other artistic awards, such as the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize and the Arthur Guy Prize Bendigo Art Gallery award. Lloyd was born in Melbourne.
Lloyd"s work has been exhibited in:
Depth of Field at Shepparton Art Gallery and the Monash University Museum of Art (2003)
Oneindige landschappen at Slot Zeist in The Netherlands (2004)
Heat: Art and Climate Change at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Gallery, Melbourne (2008) In 2009 Gippsland Art Gallery
Gippsland Art Gallery staged Lost Highways, a survey of the artist"s work from 1998 to 2008.
Lloyd"s work is in the public collections of the State Library of Victoria and Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale. Lloyd"s paintings depict a wide range of subject matter from mountain landscapes to Film Noir vistas of highways at night. History and Science Fiction are recurring themes.
In the December 2009 edition of Australian Art Collector magazine, critic Ashley Crawford wrote, "Lloyd’s work clearly encapsulates a strange crossover between popular and high culture – there are times when his work finds the meeting point between Von Guerard and Von Daniken."
Curator Simon Gregg stated, "Often the works will speak of the future without implicitly describing anything that is futuristic.
While at the same time the suggest a distant past, tinged with the faint melancholic wisp of nostalgia.
