tom johnson : artwork

more words from fellow MadeScapes contributor Trevor Smith: February 15th 2012 It’s hardly news to announce that around 97% of my Facebook friends are not my friends.  A quick skim over the list reveals a collection (three hundred and fourteen of them) of former workmates, distant family members – some of whom I have never met – old college friends, a guy that sold me a pushbike three years ago, and one person whose friend request I accidentally accepted.  I addressed the accidental ‘friending’ via private message; her response was that her initial friend request was also an accident.  In a relationship it would make a great ‘first time we met’ story, but based on her status updates and her comments on other people’s status updates, we appear to be utterly incompatible, and now I am afraid to delete her because, despite my former assertions to the contrary, Facebook is the real world, and our mutual friends may swing to her favour, should I choose to proceed with th...

17:30 - 20:30 Milsom Place, Milsom Street, Bath

back in march last year me and will kendrick  went over to oxford to help out a friend of ours and fellow bath spa graduate  lewk wilmshurst  with the installation of his first solo show.. the show took place at Freud on walton street. a rather challenging install not only due to the dsetinct lack of manpower but Freud is beautiful and interesting but also structurally quite awkward to hang work in effectively. we rose to the challenge and learned a great deal in the process, lessons which have proved useful in subsequent installations. poster design by Garry Edison Cook the main piece (from which the show took its title) is a triptych of the three works, ‘Mutual’, ‘Coordinate’ and ‘Science’ and as a piece discuss’ our relationship with the natural world. ‘Mutual‘   Mutual is a light box with an image of an orang-utan routed into the Perspex. As you inspect the work, The Orang-utan reciprocates your inte...

i started working on a new series of digital works before christmas, they evolved out of the methods i was using to produce test palettes for the cnc routed panels ( sempiternal view and indentured clarity ). the first 3 i made were created by condensing and manipulating images ripped from google into these little pixellated landscape format colour fields.. in spite of being produced on a computer, the production method is actually more akin to traditional painting than most of my actual painting, i keep the image strictly to one layer, negating the temptation to keep particular colour formations and move them towards/away from the surface. it is important that the surface evolves as a whole in a chronologically linear way.. that way 'mistakes' or inadequite or visual unappealing decisions have to be accounted for by re-rendering or incorperating those elements into the overall scheme of things. 'Ultrapainting 1' thomas coles, google, photoshop, digital prin...

next in the backtracking web of things past (although alot of the prep and publicity was going on at the same time as Topographic Trarnslation) Chromadynamics with Will Kendrick and   Ursula Buston  in a little venue in Bath called Walcot Chapel. The awesome poster above (a smaller fold up private view invites) were done by Garry Edison Cook  and we had help installing from Jack Addis . I had three pieces in the show, the two most recent cnc pieces and a new sculpture: 'Still Livid' wood, MDF, resin, perspex, spraypaint, laquer, hardware 40 x 140 x 40cm 2011