Tom Faber
Tom Faber
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Landscape No. 3, 2019
Pigment print on Hahnemühle German Etching paper
92 x 67 cm
Edition of 10 + 2AP
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About this Work
Landscape No.3 is part of the ‘Quarry’ series (2018-19). These works were made by scanning detritus from the artist’s studio and from the ground – paint marks, soil, drawings – and then digitally recycling these samples into images. Using this format of translated materials, the work develops a language of distorted mark-making, exploring how the human mind constitutes images of imagined places and beings, and how memory acts on material.
This is a collage with digital brushstrokes, virtually constructed. This incredibly detailed work investigates the passage of time and of decomposition and deconstruction — the breakdown of a central form into its surroundings. Several layers unfold beneath our eyes, creating a peculiar dynamism which is further enhanced by the contrast between the earthy hues and the dream like semi-transparent forms. Elements interact and enter into this cycle and circulate around the image – from close to distant; under-drawing to fragments of colour. Faber is here envisaging a surrealist and chaotic economy of cut and paste - a system of forms exchanging, metamorphosing, and settling on a ground.
About Tom Faber
Faber’s work focuses on memory, place, and transformation. He produces both videos and digitally printed images, using a blend of techniques from drawing, painting, collage and 3D animation. Faber works with a library of scans, consisting of detritus from his studio and from the ground: paint marks, soil, and drawings. With these materials, he develops a language of distortive mark-making and plays with the possibilities of digital gesture. Converting these sources allows him to explore the assertive, faulty generations of memory, and the resonances of virtual 'world-building’ at a time of environmental damage. Within this framework, he degrades and recycles images. Producing scenes which often have a harmonious surface, these works tend towards the lush escapism of popular animation, but collapse under the effects of weather. Faber’s image-making techniques point towards the natural world, but hover and stall in anxiety and escapism. They find ways of weathering material into a state of erasure, simulating threats to vast and intimate systems.
Education
2017-18 Chelsea College of Arts – Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts (Distinction)
2012-15 University of Cambridge – BA (Hons) History of Art
Awards & Commissions
2019
Winterreise, digital set design for an audio-visual staging of Schubert’s song cycle
Exceptional Graduate Award, Collyer Bristow Gallery (shortlisted)
Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition winner
Residencies
2019
‘United’, UK Young Artists and Platform Nord, Leicester, UK, and Kristiansand, Norway
Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
Exhibitions
2019
Quarry, Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia (solo show)
Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2018
SEA(S) 2018, Ionion Centre for The Arts and Culture, Kefalonia
A Manifesto of Ecology, Phoenix Gallery, Athens
Three, HartsLane, London
Offsite, Safe House, London
One, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Snorkel, The Cookhouse, London