In my work I combine painting and digital collage to explore how we relate to our environment.
I begin by gathering images – photos of different environments, microscopic imaging of plants, computer game imagery and historical paintings. From these I create paintings and drawings which I then scan and arrange digitally. Often I also leave prints, drawings and other materials outside to degrade, before reincorporating these marks into my work.
The resulting pictures aim to investigate the boundaries between real and virtual, natural and artificial, and hint at the unpredictable processes now at play between them.
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Education
Chelsea College of Arts – Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts (Distinction), 2017-18
University of Cambridge – BA (Hons) History of Art, 2012-15
Solo Exhibitions
May 2019 Quarry, Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia
Selected Group Exhibitions
Aug 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
Feb 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
August 2019 Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition (shortlisted)
Contact:
info@tomfaber.com