Tom Fairlamb

Fine Art BA (Hons)

MAKE ME MAKE THEM MAKE US

About

Image of male face split over several screens

It’s all bodies: Bodying concepts and ideas; Material bodies - animal, plant and object; Collections and groupings - bodies of bodies. 
Agency of bodies, bodies agency over other bodies. 
Interactions of bodies, bodies interactions with other bodies.
All bodies are in motion. 
All bodies are changing.
All bodies are durational.
All bodies are components.
A part of parts is not apart.
Trial and error is playful, a process for creation. 
Sometimes trials fail.
Sometimes errors are successful. 
Functions are used uselessly.
Presence implies absence. Absence implies presence.
In is out. Out is in.
Sound takes out your mind.
Everything is musical. 
Everything is sculpture. 
Everything is drawing. 
Everything is performative.
Repetitive hangecs a. Repetitive angechs acc. Repetitive ngechas accum. Repetitive gechans accumu. Repetitive echangs accumula. Repetitive changes accumulate. [repeat]
Everything is political. 
Everything is philosophical. 
Everything is psychological.
Simple techniques, LoFi, DIY. Imperfections made by the hands of a human being. 
Hands are a component of the body, and are bodies themselves. 
Hands, a body of digits.
Digital bodies in analog. 
Analog bodies in digital.
The human body is humorous. 
Humour is human. Laughter is a bodily response to humour. 
We have bodies. We are these bodies.

Showreel of works

REM to RAM

White plaster cast of sleeping head resting on an open laptop placed on a white pillow. The head is pressing the button “z” continuously on the laptop.

2023 mixed media 60 x 30 x 30 cm

The Kiss

Two plaster cast heads with a phone in their mouths. On the phone screen are two tongues touching tips. The tongues appear to come from the plaster heads mouths.

2023 mixed media 60 x 60 x 90 cm

Seven Meters, Forty-two Litres - The River

Wax face with its mouth wide open suspended by wire. Above the mouth is a clear tube pouring water into the mouth, out the back of the mouth is a windy thinner tube.

2023 mixed media 150 x 100 x 200 cm

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