Anthony Vizard
British
Navigating Contemporary Visual Culture
Anthony Vizard (b. Britain, 1974) is a British artist whose work explores the friction between digital ephemera and painterly materiality. Through layers of digital and painted intervention, he explores how meaning emerges at the intersection of immediacy and permanence.
Vizard developed his distinctive visual approach through formative study under Royal College alumnus Anthony Corner and later experience in global fashion and design. Beginning at Paul Smith’s London studio and expanding through roles in Hong Kong, Amsterdam, and across the United States, his work in major fashion capitals shaped his understanding of contemporary visual culture. This background informs his current practice, which examines how digital and traditional media intersect in an image-saturated world.
He lives and works in Worcestershire, a short walk from Elgar’s birthplace.
UNTITLED (After Oehlen I) (2021)
Resonances series
Gesso, acrylic on canvas
42 × 36½ in / 106.5 × 92.5
Artist Overview
Anthony Vizard’s practice emerges from a distinct trajectory through contemporary visual culture. Forged at Paul Smith’s London atelier and tempered in global fashion capitals, his work distils a refined understanding of image-making, materiality, and reproduction. This background propels a body of work interrogating painting’s dialogue with digital media—and how we see today.
TEMPORAL PATHWAYS (2020)
Temporal Gestures series
Gesso, acrylic on canvas
42 ½ × 37 in / 107 × 92 cm
Conceptual Framework
Vizard investigates the tension between digital immediacy and material permanence. His process often begins with rapid digital mark-making or appropriated fashion imagery, which is then reworked through successive layers of paint and digital manipulation. This methodology mirrors our cultural moment—where meaning is constructed through ongoing cycles of reproduction, appropriation, and recontextualization.
Material Disruptions (2021)
Assemblage Archive series
Acrylic on Mutoh® eco-solvent printed canvas
47 × 35 in / 119.5 × 89 cm
ASSEMBLAGE No. 1 (2019)
Assemblage Archive series
Acrylic on Mutoh eco-solvent printed canvas
50 × 38 ¾ in / 127 × 98.5 cm
Material and Media
By merging painterly abstraction with digital artefacts, Vizard initiates a dialogue between the transient nature of digital imagery and the enduring presence of the painted surface. The work resists binary categorization, instead inhabiting a liminal space where analogue tactility meets algorithmic logic. In doing so, each piece becomes both a record of process and a meditation on permanence.
DSCF7138 (2021)
Cultural Palimpsests series
Acrylic on offset printed paper
11 ¾ × 9 in / 29.5 × 23 cm
TEMPORAL INTERVENTIONS (2020)
Cultural Palimpsests series
Acrylic on offset printed paper
11 ¾ × 9 in / 29.5 × 23 cm
Viewer Experience
Vizard’s works recalibrate image engagement in the infinite scroll era. As perceptual counterpoints:
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Fast: Digital gaze compressed to single-session bursts (e.g. Cultural Palimpsests series)
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Slow: Meditatively constructed layers unveil the beholder’s share (e.g. Gridlocked Histories series)
This duality renders painting as both signal and code—a human counter to the synthetic tide.
CHRONOS MOMENT (2020)
Cultural Palimpsests series
Acrylic on offset printed paper
11 ¾ × 9 in / 29.5 × 23 cm
PRESENTLY OVERWRITING PASTISMS (2016)
Portal Suite series (1 of 1)
Lambda output on Kodak Professional Endura Metallic Paper
26 × 26 cm / 10.25 × 10.25 in
SCREEN MEMORY No.1 (2020)
Cache Landscapes series
Acrylic & gesso on canvas
51 ½ × 38 ¼ in / 131 × 98 cm
Artist Statement
Anthony Vizard’s work unfolds in the space between screen and surface, where painterly gesture collides with digital noise. Rooted in a background shaped by high fashion and image-making, his practice interrogates how we perceive, reproduce, and assign meaning to images in an age defined by velocity and repetition.
Images begin not as fixed points but as mutable forms—sketched digitally, drawn from the archive, or found in fashion’s ephemeral flow. Through layering, erasure, and transformation, Vizard builds compositions that resist resolution. His works are not declarations, but reflections—meditative fields where impermanence and permanence collide on canvas.
In a culture of speed and surface, Vizard’s work slows the image down—inviting reflection on time, perception, and the shifting nature of meaning itself.
Fusing digital ephemera with painterly abstraction, Anthony Vizard offers tactile, incisive responses to the visual overload of contemporary life—transforming the fleeting into something durational.