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Tom Ireland
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TOM IRELAND- (b.1984, Blackpool) is an artist living and working in Blackpool, UK. Ireland’s practice spans a variety of media and is motivated by broad notions of space, distance and the things that fill it/them. He is interested in what these things are; their weight, agency and currency - physically, conceptually and ideologically - and the possibilities put forward through their interactions with one another and with an audience, and how they might operate within the wider world and culture in order shape our individual and collective understanding of the spaces around us.
Ireland's interests extend to the elasticity of meaning and the proposed function of objects and/or images as vessels, devices or gateways; conduits to a deeper set of belief systems and mechanisms.
Increasingly important are orbits; Ireland's working methodologies place great emphasis on subtle intervention and slight gesture: inserting materials into an orbital conjunction with one another to unlock new meanings and possibilities in given objects, images, ideas, histories and legacies.
WEB: www.tomirelandhq.org.uk
Public / Private Collections
Recent solo and group exhibition and projects include: Météorites, entre ciel et terre (Meteroites, between Heaven and Earth) at Museum of Modern Art, Musée de Troyes (Troyes, FR); FARaway FESTIVAL DES ARTS À REIMS at La Cartonnerie, Reims FR, w/FRAC Champagne-Ardennes; Blackpool Stands Between Us and Revolution at Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK; Mont Analogues at FRAC Champagne – Ardennes, Reims, FR; Ecstatic Rituals at Humber Street Gallery, Hull, UK; Long Distance Yearning at FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims, FR; Artist Film International with Whitechapel Gallery, London and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (and touring to 17 international venues) and ARS ELECTONICA at Post City, Linz, Austria (with Arebyte, London).
Ireland has exhibited works at/with a wide range of institutions and organisations such as Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Deptford X (London), FRAC Champagne-Ardennes (Reims, FR) and Eastside Projects (Birmingham).
Ireland has works in public and private collection across the UK and Europe including the FRAC Champagne-Ardennes, Reims (FR) and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (UK).
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