Biography
Tony Messenger (b. Harrow, Middlesex, UK - d. 2001) studied at London College of Printing and Royal College of Art. During the 1960s he worked as a designer for Ambassador magazine and produced illustrations for the BBC. He taught painting at Wolverhampton Polytechnic and Camberwell College of Arts. He showed at the Royal Academy, THE London Group and Young Contemporaries and had his first solo exhibition at Trafford Gallery in 1957. In 1991 Messenger was included in England & Co’s Art in Boxes, with Paint Box, as well as the same venue’s The 1960’s, in 1993. Messenger was a versatile artist whose work reflected a love of Pop Art, typography and packaging, yet he had a nostalgia for traditional painters such as George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings.
