Dr Anthony P Oates
Digital Artist & Photographer (Fraser, ACT)

Anthony Oates graduated from the Manchester Regional College of Art in 1973 with a B.A. in
Three Dimensional design; with a B.Sc.(Univ. Leeds) in Physics and Astronomy in 1980, an
M.Sc.(Univ. Manchester) in 1981and a Ph.D.(Univ. Ctl. Lancs.) followed in 1986.

He taught for 4 years in a School of Art and Design in the 1970's and has since followed a somewhat varied career calling on the experiences gained from a background in both the Arts and Sciences. This has led to a colourful approach in his current work which has finally borne fruit after
geminating in the mind for a number of years

These series of works have finally been made possible by becoming fully conversant with the
many facilities of Photoshop 7, Paint Shop Pro-4, 3D FX and having access to a variety of
multi-media resources. Much of the imagery comes from the artists own personal drawings over
a number of years and is keenly influenced by traditional Fantasy Imagery. Each image consists
of scanned drawings or photographs taken whilst out and about seeking inspiration or whilst
listening to music. All resource material is subsequently manipulated in PhotoShop.

Influences come from images from a wide variety of sources, from experiences in life, by the
traditional drawings of Eneg, Jim, Allen Jones, Stanton and the current trends of the new
graphic artists such as Giger, Steve Stone and Kathy Hamon and David Ho as exemplified in
Computer Arts & MAC Art and Design (see Issue#23). All this is leading to a new exciting
era in sensual experience which together with the now well established dance-music craze
(thanks to Seb Fontaine, Danny Rampling, Judge Jools and Pete Tong amongst others) produces
an environment rich in lively and exciting source material.

Anthony works with an AMD 1.7 GHz Processor, 120Gby, 7k2 disk, 1Gby SDRAM, Wacom graphics tablet, 250Mby ZIP, CDRW, DVDRW, a new Matrox Dual Head AGP graphics card supporting an AOC 17" TFT display, a HP 1220C A3 inkjet printer. A WACOM ArtzII 12x12 graphics tablet has been invaluable and Fuji FinePix 4900 & 7000 Digital Cameras. The latter has already made a huge impact on the photographic side of his work. All these and more help to make the system fast enough not to despair!! A broadband ADSL cable modem has made interacting with the Net at 1.5Mbit a dream. This along with a broad and ever changing outlook onto a new and exciting world all makes for an interesting and exciting future....

Anthony was recently featured in the Swedish Digital Art & Design Magazine MAC Art & Design, Issue#23 . The Cambridge Evening News also featured the Artist in their weekend lifestyle magazine, for 7th April 2001. An exhibition at the Bird-In-Hand (www.bird-in-hand.fsnet.co.uk) in Cambridge for 2 months during the Summer, 2001 was also a great success, bringing his digital Art to a wider community.

"The future now has expanded somewhat as I have now emigrated to Australia -where - I hope
to continue with some new work in this Great Southern Land, rigours of my day-time job permitting."

Recent work has included material for PICA photo competition and the artists own investigations into the timeless landscape which surrounds us.

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