Tom Farthing Projections
Cover image: Family Portrait 2015 oil on linen 95 x 115 cm
Tom Farthing Projections 7 to 28 March at Zimmer Stewart Gallery 29 Tarrant Street Arundel West Sussex BN18 9DG tel: 01903 882063 email: info@zimmerstewart.co.uk
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Projection - noun: 1) the act or process of causing a picture, movie, etc., to appear on a surface 2) the attribution of one’s own ideas or feelings to other people or to objects 3) an estimate of future possibilities synonyms: imagining, appraisal, portrayal, illuminate, scenario, forecast
We are pleased to show the work of Tom Farthing for the first time this March. This current series of paintings is based on old Kodachrome slides of American families found in a junk shop in New York. Consequently he knows nothing about them. This frees him from the constraints usually associated with portrait painting from life: Tom says “There is a real distance there, which in a way makes them more abstract” He continues “Everyone says you should paint from your own experience. It can seem that I’m not doing that at all by painting strangers. But actually, you tend to start finding similarities between the people you know and the people in the photographs. So I find these paintings are like self-portraits of some ideal family, or my own family.”
Mother and Child 2014 oil on linen 90 x 140 cm
Girl in a red dress 2014 oil on canvas 90 x 125 cm
After Lunch (folding chair) 2015 oil on linen 85 x 75 cm
After lunch (playing) oil on linen 56 x 60 cm
Around the picnic table 2015 oil on linen 80 x 64 cm
By the pool 2015 oil on linen 55 x 65 cm
The blue vase 2014 oil on linen 65 x 85 cm
The embrace 2015 oil on linen 68 x 53 cm
The horses head 2014 oil on linen 51 x 76 cm
Crowd I 2014 & II 2015 oil on linen 40 x 30 cm
the new go-kart 2015 oil on linen 40 x 51 cm
Tom Farthing gained his MA in 2013 from Chelsea College of Art, and his BA in 2005 from theRuskin School, Oxford University. Recent exhibitions include: Pentimenti at Maybe a Vole Gallery, London 2014; The End is Where We Start From, Slate Projects, London 2014; S.I.T.E CCW Alumni Show, Chelsea College of Art 2013; Sunday Salon at Oakley Road Project Space, which he co curated; Westall/Sorrell in association with FAD Contemporary; Strarta Art Fair, and The Saatchi Gallery, London 2013. Tom Farthing was born in Boston, MA, USA (1982) and shortly afterwards his family moved back to the UK. He lives and works in London.
Zimmer Stewart Gallery 29 Tarrant Street Arundel West Sussex BN18 9DG tel: 01903 882063 email: info@zimmerstewart.co.uk
www.zimmerstewart.co.uk