Tony graduated from University of Wolverhampton in 1997 with a BA in Fine Art with Electronic Media. Since that time he has worked in many artistic arena’s from design of visual entertainment for bands, nightclubs and arts events to prop and set making for Television and Theatre. Since 1999 Tony has worked extensively in Carnival, running schools and constructing large scale individual costumes. From 1999 to present he has worked as a Design Assistant for Mahogany Carnival Arts working on many projects from assisting in the production of a 20 ft manually animated dragon for a touring theatre production of the Hobbit in 2001 to the production of 40 costumes for the opening ceremony of The Millennium Dome. In 2004 Tony worked on winning costumes at Notting Hill with Mahogany and Kinetika and recently completed the build of a giant Bengal Tiger for the Baishaki Mela.