Tom Pope

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Photography, 2011

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  http://www.tompope.co.uk

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• These works use performative actions. Absurdist self- portraiture that takes place in everyday spaces live in front of public gaze and scrutiny.


  The artist acts as contemporary flâneur and provocateur, enacting perhaps playful or irrational actions and ungraspable experiments. The works are caught between the performances themselves and their resultant documentation, creating a discourse between time-based photography and notions of the event.


  By collapsing the event and its record into a single performative moment we explore existential truths.


• Degrees

• BA (Hons), Photography in the Arts, Swansea Metropolitan University, 2008; Foundation Art and Design, City of Bath College, 2005

• Exhibitions

• Studio Vortex, Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France, 2011; Permanent Collection , National Portrait Gallery, London, 2010; Tom Pope (solo show), Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 2010; Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed , Photographers Gallery, London, 2009

• Awards

• Winner, Deutsche Bank Award, 2011; Winner, National Portrait Gallery Photograph of the Month, 2010; Winner, Royal West of England Academy Bursary, 2008