Ukraine Fundraiser
£100 - 40cmx37cm, Giclée print on archival watercolour paper.
25 limited-edition prints. Certificate of authenticity included.
100% of proceeds (£2500 project total) go to Save the Children. Original painting also to be sold in open online auction. See original piece here.
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Using Automation & ArtIficial intelligence in painting since 2018.
Tommy is a 23 year old painter from Woolwich, London. In 2021, he graduated with an MFA from the Ruskin School of art - University of Oxford (academic scholar). He is influenced by various popular and mass cultures. Intrigued by unpredictability and authenticity, he employs the use of a random word generator as a means to procure compulsory and reactionary incentives for subject matter and narratives formulated through his intuitive responses of painterly expression.
Alongside his process of painting, Tommy’s practice is now invested in AI. Specifically, he uses a symbiotic duo of neural networks known as Generative Adversarial Networks to identify, compile, and finally mass produce the ‘language’ of his world in paint. He leads a three person team known collectively as ‘The .2 Project’ as they experiment between static composition and automated generation. The team holds an AI PHD from Oxford University and an AI researcher from St Andrews University.
Featured work - ‘Why Fight?’ 2021
Whilst studying for my MFA, I was living in student accommodation under Covid rules. I found myself eating, sleeping and painting from my room for £15,000 (in loan debt). This work captures my frustrations at the injustice that students have faced throughout the pandemic as they pissed away full-priced fees into sub-standard living and learning conditions.
RECENT NEWS -
‘Elena & the RWG’, 122cm x 122cm, mixed media on wood, has been shortlisted for the RBA’s annual Rome Scholarship 2021.
Subsequently it has been represented in an exhibition (online) by the RBA in association with Mall Galleries.
Elena & the RWG features a study of my flatmate from Oxford during my MFA year. Elena is a French student who was reading Women’s Studies , specialising on the subjects of gender conformities and women as subjects of history of art.
Behind her is a landscape backdrop that has been produced through the random word generator process.
