Artists
TOM PRICE
Tom Price's work takes a variety of forms. On occasion he uses stop
motion animation, crafting clay models which he projects as colossal
blinking heads that gaze directly at the viewer. Frequently he chooses
to cast his sculptures in bronze and present them in a seemingly
traditional manner. What these works share however is an interest in the
minutiae of body language and facial expression, and in turn their
ability to suggest a state of mind.
A common misconception about these works is that they are studies of
individuals that Price has faithfully rendered as portraits. This is not
so. The head sculptures, animations and the full figures are in fact
highly believable amalgams of a whole plethora of individuals modelled
from life in his studio, along with likenesses taken from photographs
and press cuttings. These works of fiction are then distilled by Price
and invested with tiny nuances to suggest an interior world of thought
or an emotional state. Price's aim is to capture these moments of
internal absorption through observed facial gesture, posture and gait.
Tom Price lives and works in London. In 2009 he was featured alongside
Grayson Perry, Michael Landy, Sir Anthony Caro and Cornelia Parker on
the BBC 4 programme, Where is Modern Art Now?, presented by Gus Casey- Hayford. In 2010 he made a major contribution to BBC4's, How to Get Ahead in Sculpture presented by David Thewlis, featuring Marc Quinn and Sir Anthony Caro.