Tom Cardew

Hywel T. Cardew’s practice is multidisciplinary in approach, encompassing a range of media varying from film, installation, and photography. ////

(Review by art critic, Gowri Balasegarem) Cardew is interested in the notion of positive social narrative, which is expressed by sincerity and satire in equal value. Cardew's works are studies of living. They make us re-evaluate the way in which we focus on the end result whilst paying little heed to the process; for him the process is the product. Cardew is also interested in the shifting perception of things; how an object, depending on its cultural and aesthetic framing, almost irrelevant of its functionality, communicative power, or inherent quality, will be received as being imbued with greater or lesser quality and importance. ////

Hywel T. Cardew was awarded a first class honours in Architecture, in 2011, attaining the second highest grade ever awarded by the University of Bath. His thesis (an architecture for community, politics, commerce and festival) was given the award of 'design excellence.' During his graduation exhibition, Cardew was approached by the eminent architecture studio, Herzog & de Meuron, whom he subsequently collaborated with at their design HQ in Basel, ...

2007-11 - bsc architecture, university of bath (first class hons)
2006-7 - foundation art, university of south wales (distinction)

Solo Exhibitions:

2015 - a material platform for the materialist in you (you want it), the SPACE, Hastings

2015 - 'some images from me to you', ESPS, Hastings



Commissions:

2015 - the SPACE, Hastings



Exhibitions:

2016 (TBD) - Tempting Failure, London
2016 (TBD) - Open Screenings, Whitechapel Gallery
2016 - Mama Lovely’s Salon, London
2016 - Blind Plural, Hundred Years Gallery

2015 - Summer Salon, Candidarts, London
2015 - Bells from the Deep, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2015 - ZAP Summer Exhibition, London
2015 - Artrooms, Le Dame Gallery, London
2015 - Refuse Reuse, Pocketarts, London
2015 - Forbidden, Guerilla Galleries, London

2014 - Kopitam Strait, London
2014 - Festival Images Contre Nature, Marseille
2014 - International Video Projection, Toride, Japan
2014 - Grace Gallery, Frome
2014 - A Europe for All, by All, Hundred Years Gallery, London
2014 - Y Galeri, Caerphilly

2013 - Whiteout, Hundred Years Gallery, London
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