Anthony Pace

Anthony Pace, known as Tony, was born in Cairns, North Australia in 1939. Tony came to Britain in 1947 to live with his grandmother. In 1954 he started at Newport College of Art and took his finals in 1959 at Cardiff College of Art. He also passed the entrance examination to the Royal College of Art in 1959 to study painting and illustration. In July 1959 he was employed by the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff as a designer for Schools` Service, which included conservation work of fine art at Reading University. With the advent of computer graphics he decided it was time to move on to what he was really trained for, i.e. painting. He started exhibiting with the Bristol Savages in 1985 and in 1986 in London at the Royal Institute, RBA and RSMA. He had one painting accepted for the Royal Academy in 1989 but not hung. He had a one-man exhibition in Bath 1990 that later toured Devon and Cornwall. He has paintings in private collections in France, Switzerland, America and Australia.