Tom Owen (b.1982, Wilitshire, England) previously studied at The Slade School of Fine Art (2002-2006), and Kunstakademie Duesseldorf with Professor Peter Doig (2012).

Owen’s artworks are assemblages of materials and techniques involving plasterboard, resin, mechanical and digital print and paint. Although employing broad methods the works deny the exuberance this might imply. Rather, they seem more concerned with reluctance. Printed motifs are repeated, adjusted, corrected across the picture plane. It is left uncertain as to whether this is about creating a holistic movement or interrupting the composition of one.

With fragments dispersed and presented without giving too much away, the works move between suggesting and declining connections between the pieces. What emerges is a focus on the physicality of objects and materials, postured self-deprecating propositions or fake ruins.