tom johnson : artwork

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...

just a sample of some new bits and things that have been going on in the studio lately... my current projector jig/bodge one of the sonic the hedgehog panels after the initial projected drawing a little casting for another videogame related project, a bit more neatness required next time i think. some progress on a series of pictureboxes which will contain collage and cast elements. 'in the middle of the filth of truth' detail