Vale Artist, Musician, Club Kooky Dancer Tony Kastanos | b. 25/03/1961 – d. 08/01/2024

My arts and musican friend Tony Kastanos died this week.
We met at the Adelaide Festival in 1990. A memorable meeting when Adelaide was teaming with arts, culture, activism and queer activitiy.
It was on a sand dune located inside a vast industrial warehouse transformed into a warehouse dance party venue. We sat in a car wreck in a chill space as house music played nearby. Chatting about art, dancing and life with artists Virginia Barratt, John Tonkin, Julianne Pierce, Francesca de Rimini, Paul Taylor and his boyfriend.
In this photo below artists Tony Kastanos and John Tonkin are pictured in a candid moment at Pepys Art Project.

Pepys Show Project. [PRG 1673/2/105] • Photograph accessed: https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/PRG+1673/2/105
See also:
https://daao.library.unsw.edu.au/bio/version_history/tony-kastanos/groups/
Tony’s artist friend and colleague is looking for photos of the artist to send to Tony’s family. In Bronwyn’s photo featured in this post she capture one of Tony’s fave pastimes – eating.
https://bronwynkempceramics.tumblr.com/
You can contact Bronwyn directly at her link below:
Tony Kastanos is artist and musician, living in Adelaide
For Tony Kastanos, there have been many life changing moments in the recent years, but he never expected to find his true homeland in the heart of Adelaide’s city when he moved from Sydney after a career in business, as a musician and film maker.
Tony was in Paris, on his way to Italy, Cyprus and Greece – his grandparents’ homeland – when the pandemic was declared, and he had to abort the mission and return to Australia.
“My trip to homeland was aborted and I found home here in a sense,” Tony said as he reflected on moving to Adelaide and retiring early by finding a city apartment in Spence on Light. In fact, Tony was one the first residents to move into ACH Group’s city retirement living offering. The urban design and lifestyle appealed to him.