Mathew Tom, Welcome to Paradise

16 Nov 2012-24 Jan 2013

Overview

Tom presents a culmination of different cultural experiences through his art making; the artist focusing on classical European drawing techniques, pattern inspired by fabrics from India and impasto painting techniques learned in Chicago. His art places a strong emphasis on symmetrical meticulousness and a bold use of paint. The artist can be seen to reference the stylisation of nature but with an ironic coil, harking to the aesthetic debates over ornamentation and its relationship to mass consumerist culture in the 20th and 21st centuries.