Tom Scott

I make art because I need to. Regardless of the research, politics, craft, and aesthetics which are at work in my practice, first and foremost I produce art as a means to wrestle with, and further understand, our existential purpose.

The body of work I am gradually building is, therefore, a reflection of how I see the world, and how I would like to facilitate the viewer in questioning elements of life based on these reflective experiences.

The overarching themes of my work concern meaning and sustainability. What we pursue from life always has a price, and the beneficial elements always produce material which ultimately, whether we are conscious of this condition or not, harms us, and if not us, then strangers in other lands, or futures, which are alien to us in our contemporary state.

My pieces are an attempt to meet these strangers, to initiate conversation with the voices that we only discover through an experience which pierces the almost constantly invisible membrane that surrounds us - the distracted mode of everyday living.

This is where art, when art performs at its most authentic, is the prick that bursts the perception we assume and most often know to be "˜reality'. Art stops us, grabs us, arrests us, move...

MA Theology, University of Manchester

BA Hons Theology, University of Manchester

NUI Cert. Photography and Digitial Imaging, National College of Art and Design, Dublin