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| | Fine Art | Posted on 30.03.2011 | Posted by CC
Son Gallery - Tom Saunderson
In Study in Archive (i) he unearths material which has been left dormant: Using various techniques, including digital manipulations and hand-drawn amendments, he reanimates them in an intensive interaction with the personal history that his archive represents.
As well as photographs taken with artistic intention, Archive (i) also contains commissioned documentary material and personal photographs. Whilst Saunderson took most of the photographs himself, a number were made by people who he trained in participatory projects.
A new series of works are digitally manipulated images whose originals depict a wide range of subjects; from friends and relatives at home, to French Marines in Kosovo and the citizens of townships in Johannesburg. These images are leveled by colourful graphic spots that are positioned playfully, but jarringly, across the photographic surface.
A second series consists of reworked images taken by the young photographers who Saunderson trained in participatory
projects. The photographs have a candid intensity to them, the reality of which the artist feels has been lost in the time they have rested in his archive. Responding to this Saunderson makes a series of hand-drawn geometric marks, scoring the face of each photograph and providing new vectors from which to view them.
The final group of prints are characterized by their emptiness. Saunderson values the uncomplicated honesty of these archived images in contrast with the many half-remembered faces and events which he fi nds them alongside.
Study in Archive (i) refl ects the artist’s interest in the confl ict between the availability of information and the problems we have in processing and storing this information. Saunderson questions the methods and reasons for producing and viewing our world with a photographic eye.
TOM SAUNDERSON
Tom Saunderson (born 1984, Norwich) attended Norwich School of Art and London College of Communication where he studied photo-journalism. Whilst at university he set up New Exposure, a close-knit collective of photographers and writers who, between 2007 and 2009, produced a series of documentary projects in countries such as Kosovo and Syria. Shaped by his experiences from these projects in late 2009 he initiated the setting up of Son Gallery with curator Guy Robertson.
Son Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Peckham. Saunderson’s fi rst solo exhibition, Eye Saw: Aesthetics and Ethics, was held at Son Gallery in March 2010. Work from this exhibition was shown in the Saatchi Gallery in June 2010 as part of the Deustche Bank Borders show. In June 2010 he had a solo exhibition and produced a group exhibition in Museum Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, called Look Here I Am. Most recently work from Study in Archive (i) has been selected for the New York Photo Festival’s Provocation exhibition,opening in March 2011.
For more information please contact Guy Robertson, guy@songallery.co.uk, 077354 59614
As well as photographs taken with artistic intention, Archive (i) also contains commissioned documentary material and personal photographs. Whilst Saunderson took most of the photographs himself, a number were made by people who he trained in participatory projects.
A new series of works are digitally manipulated images whose originals depict a wide range of subjects; from friends and relatives at home, to French Marines in Kosovo and the citizens of townships in Johannesburg. These images are leveled by colourful graphic spots that are positioned playfully, but jarringly, across the photographic surface.
A second series consists of reworked images taken by the young photographers who Saunderson trained in participatory
projects. The photographs have a candid intensity to them, the reality of which the artist feels has been lost in the time they have rested in his archive. Responding to this Saunderson makes a series of hand-drawn geometric marks, scoring the face of each photograph and providing new vectors from which to view them.
The final group of prints are characterized by their emptiness. Saunderson values the uncomplicated honesty of these archived images in contrast with the many half-remembered faces and events which he fi nds them alongside.
Study in Archive (i) refl ects the artist’s interest in the confl ict between the availability of information and the problems we have in processing and storing this information. Saunderson questions the methods and reasons for producing and viewing our world with a photographic eye.
TOM SAUNDERSON
Tom Saunderson (born 1984, Norwich) attended Norwich School of Art and London College of Communication where he studied photo-journalism. Whilst at university he set up New Exposure, a close-knit collective of photographers and writers who, between 2007 and 2009, produced a series of documentary projects in countries such as Kosovo and Syria. Shaped by his experiences from these projects in late 2009 he initiated the setting up of Son Gallery with curator Guy Robertson.
Son Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Peckham. Saunderson’s fi rst solo exhibition, Eye Saw: Aesthetics and Ethics, was held at Son Gallery in March 2010. Work from this exhibition was shown in the Saatchi Gallery in June 2010 as part of the Deustche Bank Borders show. In June 2010 he had a solo exhibition and produced a group exhibition in Museum Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, called Look Here I Am. Most recently work from Study in Archive (i) has been selected for the New York Photo Festival’s Provocation exhibition,opening in March 2011.
For more information please contact Guy Robertson, guy@songallery.co.uk, 077354 59614
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