Tony | About Tony Caulfield and his work

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Born Tony Kremp on May 6th 1974, in Germany, he assumed the artist's pseudonym Tony Caulfield in the year 2001.

The older works of art currently displayed in the art section were created by Tony Caulfield between 1997 and 2000, using a mix of different colors (predominantly acrylic) and various techniques, and are signed with his civil name.

His newer paintings were created between 2007 and today (mainly acrylic on canvas); they are signed Tony Caulfield.

The artist derived inspiration from intense life experiences prior to and during the creation period, including depression and Near Death Experience.

During this period of time, Tony Caulfield (as Tony Kremp) also took a few semesters of philosophy and English language and literature studies at the Universität des Saarlandes.

The paintings were presented to the public for the first time through the exhibitions Nemesifications (1997) and Nemesifications & more (1998), as well as through numerous virtual galleries - e.g. on the Saatchi Gallery website.

A selection of the works was used to illustrate Tony Caulfield's book Das Buch des Wahns (The Book of Madness).
Tony had started writing this collection of seven short novels, belonging to the genres of horror/splatterpunk and fantasy, in 1996.
The book was first published in 2005.

In 1999, Tony founded his first company Kirsticon Enterprises, which was renamed to Art & Design Company (ADC) in 2006, and received an award and funding from ExTra! (Existenzgründer-Training), an event by the University of Kaiserslautern, for the Kirsticon Enterprises business plan.

In 2000 Tony Caulfield (as Tony Kremp) was nominated for the Rising Movie Talent Award given by AAA (Actors And Arts) and German TV network Sat.1.

From 2002-2003 Tony Caulfield starred in Realmaker Production's mystery/action thriller Accept and Magicland Pictures' horror thriller Slayer.

In 2003, Tony had another leading role in Lee/Leroc's Evil Knights, a horror movie with mythical and parody elements that combines a dark story with action sequences, special effects and loving homages to horror film legends.

In 2005, Tony Caulfield starred as Professor Hoden Langston in Dogma 2005 Productions' crime/comedy feature Das Geheimnis der Stählernen Holztür (The Mystery of the Steely Wood Door) and played the Master of the Circle (Master Narrator) in Lee/Leroc's horror/comedy feature Unbelievable Terror.

He also did a cameo appearance in Henning Christiansen's Blaupause (Blueprint).

Since 2004 Tony Caulfield has been co-producing a double-CD album with English, German and French songs based on the works of poet Arthur Rimbaud, titled Art Rimbaud Project.

Tony did the vocals for some of the songs, is featured in a music video and portrayed and voiced Arthur in a flash-animated Arthur Rimbaud biography.
The album was released in 2006.

Tony Caulfield's further finished projects include the development of the treatment for a feature film (working title: Elegy For A Clown's Heart), the publishing of various texts and numerous projects in the fields of graphic design, web design and advertising design, as well as translation and localization.

In 2007, Tony Caulfield published his second book, a non-fiction book titled Du mußt sühnen - Dokumentation eines psychologischen Mordversuchs (You must expiate - Documentation of a psychological murder attempt).

The book is illustrated with paintings he created in 2006.

In November 2007, Tony Caulfield founded Floracentric Enterprises, a group currently including Art & Design Company (ADC), the art label Tony Caulfield, Eskapismus.com and Horse Resource.


On Halloween (31.10.) 2008, some of Tony Caulfield's paintings were on display at the art gallery fingerspitzundkunst in Kaiserslautern (in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), on the occasion of his reading from Das Buch des Wahns which took place there.
In the morning of the same day, Tony also did a live reading of some passages from this book at the local radio station Antenne Kaiserslautern.

The next reading from the same book, together with the opening of a three-weeks-long exhibition - this time including new paintings from the creation period 2006-2009 - took place on April 4, 2009 at the Café23 in Kaiserslautern.

On May 30, 2009, another single exhibition at the gallery fingerspitzundkunst started with a vernissage. The works were on display until June 26.

27.-28.06.2009: Förderverein Künstler gegen Armut e.V. (Artists Against Poverty Association) presents The World's Longest Political Painting. 54 artists, incl. Tony Caulfield, paint on a canvas sized 1m x 120m and create visual statements concerning the topic of "poverty in Germany".

04.-05.07.2009: Altstadtfest Kaiserslautern. Tony paints live in front of the fingerspitzundkunst gallery and takes part in the gallery's group exhibition.

23.08.2009: fingerspitzundkunst presents Art & Barbecue at the Black & White Club, Kaiserslautern. Four artists are painting a wall which borders on the club's outdoor area: Caro Parsons, Sonja Blügel, Santiago Munoz Prado and Tony Caulfield.

25.09.2009: Group reading with Wiebke Kunert, Robert-C. Scheel, Uwe Kraus, Dr. Rainar Nitzsche,... at Café23. Tony reads Die Reise zu meiner Anima: Selbsterkenntnis und Neugeburt.

31.10.2009: Halloween reading. The local radio station Antenne Kaiserslautern airs another (previously recorded) reading of story excerpts by Tony Caulfield, while Tony reads his latest short novel "Der Fluch und Niedergang des Hauses Voltar: Die Abessinischen Greuel (The Curse and Fall of the House of Voltar: The Abyssinian Atrocities)" live at the gallery fingerspitzundkunst.

06.11.2009: Another vernissage at the gallery fingerspitzundkunst, opening a group exhibition running until the end of 2009.

Currently, Tony is working on new art and design projects, as well as on the preparation of upcoming exhibitions.




Here is a printable pdf file (ca. 1MB) of Tony Caulfield's complete resumé.

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