membership / artist member
Simon and Tom Bloor
http://www.simonandtombloor.co.uk/
download cv here
biography
Simon and Tom Bloor were featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2007 and 2008 held at Bloomberg SPACE, London.
statement
Simon & Tom Bloor’s works and projects use a range of media including publications, drawing, sculpture and installation to investigate moments of utopian potential and flawed idealisms. With an approach to research that has been described as more ‘magpie-like’ than academic, their work often adapts existing texts and images culled from a variety of sources, filtering and re-presenting this information to reveal hidden connections and obscure histories or to create shifts in context that encourage new readings and alternative interpretations.
Crossing the boundaries between art, design and social history their work moves beyond art’s continued fascination with the aesthetics of Modernism and into the uncertain territory of something more engaged with its social structures.
In addition to their collaboration together they also work with artist/curator Gavin Wade (as Gavin Wade mit Simon & Tom Bloor) on their series of Kiosk projects.
related links
http://www.eastsideprojects.org/index.php?/ongoing/simon--tom-bloor/
http://www.artfutures.org.uk/Artist/simon-and-tom-bloor
exhibitions
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ARTfutures 2007
7th March — 12th March 2007Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD -
ARTfutures 2008
6th March — 12th March 2008Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD
Simon and Tom Bloor As long as it lasts 2009
Simon and Tom Bloor Stuck 2008
Simon and Tom Bloor Youth in the form of an abstracted figure of a pony-tailed girl 2009
Simon and Tom Bloor What a wonderful world tomorrow will be... (prototype) 2008
Simon and Tom Bloor Hey for Lubberland! 2009
Simon and Tom Bloor David tries several arrangements before he finds one he likes 2008
Simon and Tom Bloor The ignorance of the People (shelving unit) 2007
Simon and Tom Bloor If this isn't nice (screen) 2006
