TOM HARDWICK-ALLAN
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Vez, acrylic paint marker, acrylic ink, permanent marker, pencil and biro on carved birch plywood, 70cm x 112cm, 2022
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Olt, acrylic paint marker, acrylic ink, permanent marker, pencil and biro on carved birch plywood, 67cm x 116cm, 2022
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Seq, acrylic paint marker, acrylic ink, permanent marker, pencil and biro on carved birch plywood, 70cm x 110cm, 2022
India Nielsen, Tom Hardwick-Allan and Jos Nyreen
The Correspondence, mixed media including oil pastel, paint, pencil and watercolour on Fabriano paper, 70cm x 50cm, 2020
Biography
Tom Hardwick-Allan scratches away at an array of surfaces in an attempt to dislodge a framework through which something from another side might arise. His carved reliefs emerge through planned motifs mixed with searching excavations and erasures. The artist treats image making as a digestive process in which the shapes of ideas are broken down to activate the latent chemical potential that they contain. Through metonymic explorations, Hardwick-Allan’s work evidences a straining towards something which is beyond present articulation. This friction gives way to fictions that are fed back into the machination.
EDUCATION
2019 BA at Slade School of Fine Art
2015 Foundation at Central St. Martins
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Going Light, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Pygostyle, The Residence Gallery, London
Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London
2021
Von der schenkenden Tugend, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
‘Hope is the thing with feathers’, South Parade, London
&zines, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
Casting the Runes, Underground Flower, 108 Fleet Street, London
Winter Wonderland, Fan Fiction International, Hyde Park, London
2020
The Correspondence, The Residence Gallery, London
Flow My Tears, Christopher Tracey, ACUD Galerie, Berlin
In the tame beast’s eye: a grotto, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne
2019
Breathless: London Art Now, Ca' Pesaro, Venice
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Vogel, Weinspach, Cologne
2018
cartoon flora of the avian gut, self published
INTERVIEWS
2021
Like a bit of bug stuck on the lens, Weinspach, Cologne
AWARDS
2019
Michael Farrell Photography Prize