Artist : Tom Pether
Title : Neither Nor
Medium : antler, fake fur, wax, wire, concrete
Dimensions : 110 x 60 x 50 cm


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Tom Pether was born in the West Midlands, UK, and is currently based in Plymouth. His sculptural practice is driven by the slow accretion and reworking of objects that we use in our daily lives. His work explores a desire to escape our worldly concerns, and our inevitable failure to do so, and how this haunts us. Building sculptures from the scraps of other sculptures, Tom’s practice constantly eats itself in order to excrete new work that is, in each iteration, both more condensed and less certain of its own boundaries. These objects bear a patina of time and wear that shrouds the discrete histories of their component parts; new properties emerge, layered up somehow like the scent of smoke and bodies and cooking in a houseshare’s communal landing. An archipelago of self-contained worlds that are remote yet familiar, physically stark yet conceptually overstuffed; fundamentally doomed attempts to understand the world through mute objects possessing a knowledge of the world that language cannot parse.