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Low Relief and Foil is Tom Hardwick-Allan’s second solo exhibition at South Parade. The work is a new series of cast-iron reliefs and an installation of concealed books.
If you ask Tom to explain his work, he presents you with, like, word-play. ‘Cause, OK, one example: iron casting is a near-obsolete technology of reproduction, and the show is full of babies.
And then there’s the way he’s riffing on multiple meanings of the word ‘imprinting.’ Here, one meaning is: imprinting is a formal process in iron-casting – you imprint when you press a carved wood ‘pattern’ into petrol-rich sand to leave an impression of the shape of the wood you carved. Another meaning is: imprinting is a developmental phenomenon for humans and for other animals, where an infant forms an intense association with the host that cares for it, and that host impresses upon the innocent infant a set of behavioural patterns which may, perhaps, define its life.
The word-play goes on. ‘Relief’…‘cast’… etc. It’s more than…
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Low Relief and Foil is Tom Hardwick-Allan’s second solo exhibition at South Parade. The work is a new series of cast-iron reliefs and an installation of concealed books.
If you ask Tom to explain his work, he presents you with, like, word-play. ‘Cause, OK, one example: iron casting is a near-obsolete technology of reproduction, and the show is full of babies.
And then there’s the way he’s riffing on multiple meanings of the word ‘imprinting.’ Here, one meaning is: imprinting is a formal process in iron-casting – you imprint when you press a carved wood ‘pattern’ into petrol-rich sand to leave an impression of the shape of the wood you carved. Another meaning is: imprinting is a developmental phenomenon for humans and for other animals, where an infant forms an intense association with the host that cares for it, and that host impresses upon the innocent infant a set of behavioural patterns which may, perhaps, define its life.
The word-play goes on. ‘Relief’…‘cast’… etc. It’s more than…
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