Tom Pope
(26 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Swansea)
Swansea metropolitan university
I am a photographic artist who has recently graduated from Swansea Metropolitan University with a First Class Honours in Photography in the Arts. Originally from Bristol, I now live in Swansea, where I am about to start a one artist residency at Swansea Metropolitan University. I currently have work in the Royal West of England Academy of arts and in the Mission Gallery Swansea, where I was the first prize winner of the Open e ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
My photographic practice embraces the performative act in order to highlight the discourse between a potentially time-based photography and a privileged notion of event. The utilizing of performative strategies within my photography sees the photographic record of an event and the event itself form a creative dialogue. Subsequently the resulting performative photograph encourages the viewer to invent meaning resulting from a blurring of fact and fiction. I intend to further explore this field, with the notion in 25 years time it will be possible for people to defy gravity as I do now. I want to arrest the expressions that the unconscious audience makes as they react to my work, as this expression will be made redundant in 25 years time when the world accepts that it is possible for people to defy gravity.
I plan to enter the protagonist into situations that put him out of context in this day and age, but something that will be normal in 25 years time, for example we will see him defying gravity in public locations, where an unconscious audience is present, and their reaction to the performance will be captured within the performative photograph. I will consider narrative carefully in the series I produce; my work does not see a development in narrative; there is no beginning or end, we see an “instance” where it becomes difficult to distinguish a clear route to how the protagonist ended up in the situation we see him in.
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My Artworks (6)
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