Conference of the Birds by Toby Leon in Sydney

I'm Toby, a kitsch collage fanatic with a tenuous grip on reality. What's real, anyway? You tell me... Here's something I can tell you for sure: my tenuous grip on reality is the perfect antidote for spaces and places that need a dash of inspiration. I work closely with clients of all shapes and sizes to make work that sings their daydreams into waking life. Whether it's a portrait that weaves the symbology of your life story together, or a coven of witches ordered from the underworld by a high fashion mag... I reshape reality with every piece. From a motley crew of tales tall and true. A melange of myths, signs and symbols. Every one ripe for my kitsch confections, which could all be legends one day... Every piece I create is true. Sourced from truth and grounded by it. But never real. Reality's a fiction we're all subscribed to, which doesn't make it any less true. And that's the thing about the truth. Or the past. It moves in both directions. Myriad, in fact. Never sitting still or doing as it's told. Forever questioned, dissected, reframed and upended. Queered and inverted. Packaged and performed. Told, retold, adapted then sold. Evolving like everything else. Which is why I like to think my art exists outside of time. Reaching for infinity instead of reality. A kaleidoscope of mish-mashed truths that are only ever as surreal as we choose to make them... ? Toby Leon