Troy Schooneman is an Australian artist whose work centres on the male nude and the male figure, and on their transformation through image, memory, and time.

Working across fine art male nude photography and constructed imagery, his practice spans more than two decades and returns repeatedly to a consistent set of concerns: beauty, identity, vulnerability, longing, and the ways in which images preserve what life inevitably alters. The work belongs to the long tradition of the male nude in art, from classical sculpture and academic figure study to contemporary photography, without reducing the men portrayed to mere spectacle.

The archive unfolds through six interconnected collections. Figures appear as artefacts, as relics reclaimed by the sea, as ideals, as individuals, as remembered presences, and finally beside age itself. Although each body of work possesses its own language and chronology, all are united by an interest in what survives through representation and what remains after time has passed.