Performance Installations

Self Devised (written, directed) theatrical shows- installations

2009 Dec “live Painting” closing ceremony concert, Parliament of world religions, Melb. Convention centre.

During the main 90 minute concert Anthony vigilantly created on stage two mobile like- 3.6m x 2.5m paintings that symbolized the prominence water has in our culture as a substance that both enables life and transports people to our shores.

2009 Nov “The art of Football” Installation/performance with Geelong Christian college- 6 week project

- funded by Arts Vic. For 6 weeks Anthony worked full time with over 500 students from Geelong Christian college to create a huge performance/installation entitled "The art of football".
Here the spectacle of the game itself and all its rituals were created artistically on a massive level, from the team jumpers and war makeup to the crowd itself.

2009 Oct. Anthony Breslin mural project with Cultural Infusion

In 2009 cultural infusion approached established/ professional/ artist Anthony Breslin to run a very different project within 10 remote schools. He came up with an idea that would result in a unique, malleable, mural being created that the school could hang along with his assistant leigh grant they drove over 4000km in 12 days and worked with over 1200 students at 10 schools to create 10 murals.
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2009 Aug " Multi-Head"

Anthony Breslin painting "Multihead" was created as part of his 2009 solo exhibition "The beginning of the end of something new" at Greenwood gallery in Melbourne, Australia. The original soundtrack that accompanied the work was composed by Greg Long.

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2008 Nov “Trybe” at the "Signature of M" art prize gala night, Central Pier Venue, Docklands Melbourne.

Anthony's paint opera "Trybe" was commissioned for this gala night as part of the main entertainment, Anthony used this opportunity to further develop the show so as it had more of a "carnival" theme to it in this in- carnation! The show fuses dance, film, music, and painting into one unique show that explores the metaphoric fusion of humanity into one tribe, one identity.
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2008 Oct “Live interactive painting” Conscientia Festival, Salt Lake city United States.

In October 2008 Anthony was invited to the "Conscientia" festival in salt lake city to both create a live art piece over a day and show footage/ talk about his paint opera "trybe"
The live art piece was a giant 2m x 1.8m face which people were all invited to put their hand prints in, this became the "face of the festival", and now hangs for public viewing in Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

2008 Jun “Melb. is unforgettable” painted celebs for charity,Myer windows, Bourke St. Melb. Aust.

Artist Anthony Breslin painted celebrities Ron Barassi, Molly Meldrum, Vanessa Amorosi, and Helen Kapalos into what he calls his "construction" paintings. This entailed Breslin painting each celebrity into a giant face within a fifty minute show, after the personalities stepped out of the works Breslin would then work on them a little longer so as they could be exhibited in the Myer windows and sold for auction for the Ladder foundation.
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Breslin paints Molly Meldrum

2006 Nov “trybe”- An Opera in Paint, 4 shows, New Quay, Docklands promenade, Melb.

In Nov 06 Anthony used New Quay as his blank canvas to create “trybe” an evocative extravaganza of an opera combining a musical score, dance, paint, people and film.
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2006 Jan “Art for everyone, Life for all” - 3 window installation, Myers windows, Bourke St, Melb.

For one week the Myers Bourke St windows became studio and gallery as Anthony performed and created his show “Art for everyone, Life for all”. He created and sold 100 paintings from the window, donating all the profits to charity.
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2003 Oct “Brezania” - fantasy world for T.L.C, "Number 12" Kensington, Melb.

If you mix 300 square metres of grass, 17 magical fairies, wizards, elves and clowns, an abundance of flowers, stars, lights, unicorns, magical games, food and stories you will have “Brezania”, a magical world created by Anthony Breslin for terminally ill children and their families!

1999 Aug ‘’Clive Potter; Poet!” - Infinite Blue Prod, 3 week season, Theatreworks, Melb.

Written, directed, and designed by Anthony, and performed by a stellar cast including Anthony, “Clive Potter; Poet!” is a play about ghosts, poetry, death, cross-dressing and suicide. It explores all that we are but fail to see.

1998 Mar “Beyond the Inadequate Word in Vivid Colour” - Wax Studios, Richmond, Melb.

An installation/exhibition that accosted the senses with light, music, paintings and performance as one of "Anthony’s sculptured heads came alive, while the artist himself lay naked in a coffin amidst his own creations."