John Moores 25
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 20 September 2008 - 9 January 2009
20 x 25 cm, Oil paint on shaped MDF, 2007
My interest in painting is derived from having encountered the quietness and grace
of 18th-century Japanese landscape painting. I endeavour to paint with a muted
form of expression. Huts on stilts, raised walkways, A-frames, ladders and billboards
litter the fictitious landscapes. They are the traces of human existence (human
idiosyncrasy), but they also act as technical devices, making the landscape somehow
more tangible.
Tom Bull was born in Shoreham, West Sussex in
1983. He studied at Brighton and Hove City College 2001-02 and
Middlesex University 2002-05. Since graduating he has shown in London
in group shows including' Middlesex University Degree Show' Old Truman
Brewery 2005, 'You don't have to murder your father' The Empire 2005, 'Best
of the Best and Art in Mind' La Viande 2005, 'Jam' John Jones Project Space
2006 and 'Square Eye's' John Jones Project Space 2007.