Thomas Compton- Midnight Dancers

£535.00

Screen-Print

58x42cm

2019

1/1

Unframed

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Screen-Print

58x42cm

2019

1/1

Unframed

Screen-Print

58x42cm

2019

1/1

Unframed

Thomas Compton (b.1996. UK) is an artist, printmaker and illustrator currently studying at the Royal College of Art, originally from Petworth, West Sussex. His practice is the culmination of both digital and analogue methods. His approach to image-making explores sets of chosen subjects through research and drafting periods, positioning the subject within an aesthetic framework. This process acts as a vehicle to create conscientious responses to the subject. Influences are the legacy and future of folk customs, myth and legend, the ethos of the Arts & Crafts movement, industry, materiality and the philosophies/histories of printing processes, among others.

The three prints in this series are impressions made from the artist’s graphic novel ‘The De Chirico Horse’. In 1927, Thomas’ great-grandfather Hugh Compton travelled from England to Italy as a young man. He would stay here for several years, where upon his return he had acquired fluent Italian and a miniature carving of a wooden horse. This, it would turn out was a gift from the metaphysical artist. The novel’s narrative and the resultant prints weave the known and the fictional, touching on themes of provenance and the nature of story to degrade and/or evolve through authorship. Incongruent and anonymous figures move through seemingly boundless dreamscapes, sometimes tracing the heels of a horse. There is something consecrating in creating this vignette as it surmises the aura of the carving relative to the artist’s encounters with it and ruminated family accounts.

PARAGRAPH TWO: MIDNIGHT DANCERS-

The print’s inverse image set against its native orientation generates and augments new realities.

A dual viewing state is cast upon the scene, which moves from a place of linear narrative to a

cyclical one. I, the draftsman, the composer, the sequential storyteller am now only an observer to

this new narrative. Process takes precedent.

Thomas Compton

Image for illustration purposes only, artwork supplied unframed

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