b. 1993, U.K
In my work, I use both moving and still images to construct worlds of surreal weather. Working with 3D software, I see each animation as an environmental and emotional scenario: clouds that calm and expand, skies that fall in, places that recede or emerge. Each work examines a world, and builds and dismantles forms of psychological shelter. Charging places into a state of flux, the videos visualize characters and presences haunted by the extreme transience of places, moving between states of calm, shock and nostalgia.
The videos often build scenes that are in stages of vanishing, reducing atmospheres to tactile fabrics that move in the wind and appear to glean memories off forms, concealing and revealing them in their wake. They act out a type of image extraction – processing footage of weather events or home video and unravelling them into spaces that are both abstract and sentimental. Memories of rootedness and love blow around realms that become more precarious with time, continually morphing between despair and hope.
I work with these dynamics – inside and outside, home, the weather – to explore how changing climate seeps into rhythms of internal emotional weather.
Email: info@tomfaber.com
Instagram: @tom_faber_
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Education
Goldsmiths, University of London - MFA Fine Art (distinction), 2022-24
Chelsea College of Arts – Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts, 2017-18
University of Cambridge – BA History of Art, 2012-15
Solo Exhibitions
May 2019 Quarry, Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia
Selected Group Exhibitions
January 2025 Thresh{hold}, Hotsheet Expo at BlokSpace, London
October 2024 Hotsheet Expo, The Department Store, London
July 2024 Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London
May 2023 Spinning Yarns, Arthub studios, London
April 2022 Kipya Ki?, Fotea x Format, New Art City, Online
February 2022 UK New Artists City Takeover, Leicester Contemporary
September 2021 Photo London, Somerset House
June 2021 VideoFenster, Cologne
Beyond, Kovet.art show at CADAF Paris
October 2020 Read the Room, Cube Gallery show at Art Athina (Athens Art Fair), VR Show
June 2020 Delineating Dreams, Kovet.Art, VR Show
November 2019 Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
August 2018 SEA(S) 2018, Ionion Centre for The Arts and Culture, Kefalonia
July 2018 A Manifesto of Ecology, Phoenix Gallery, Athens
June 2018 Three, HartsLane, London
May 2018 Offsite, Safe House, London
April 2018 One, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Februrary 2018 Snorkel, The Cookhouse, London
Residencies
June and October 2019 ‘United’, UK Young Artists and Platform Nord, Leicester, UK, and Kristiansand, Norway
April 2019 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
Commissions/ Awards
November 2019 Winterreise, digital set design for an audio-visual staging of Schubert’s song cycle
November 2019 Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Graduate Award (shortlisted)
October 2019 Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition winner