In 2001 Tom Gallant held a fellowship at the Royal Academy Schools, followed by a residency at Stichting B.a.d, Rotterdam in 2003 and his first solo show at Museum 52 in 2004, Collector I. Gallant’s work is included in many major international collections and his recent exhibitions include The Wreck of Hope, House of St Barnabas, London, a tree is best measured when it is down, Darbyshire Framemakers, London Selected Cuts and Alterations, Foley Gallery, New York and Sex Shop, Transition Gallery. He is currently working towards a major installation at Manchester Art Gallery and several museums in Manchester for 2016/2017, researching the links between the transatlantic slave trade and the industrial revolution.
Gallant disrupts the language of collage through intricately handmade works prepared using digital techniques. He appropriates images and motifs that connect to man’s inhumanity and its influence on visual culture. His background in illustration and printmaking has influenced his fascination with the didactic image and the dissemination of ideas through the various industrial revolutions, from the industry of organised religion to the printing press and the loom. Gallant has constantly placed research and the analysis of literature at the core of his practice and the psychological, social and cultural influences on the narrator and the reader.
Tom Gallant lives and works in Hove, East Sussex
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