Tom’s new solo exhibition, I Am Not Tom Pope, You Are All Tom Pope, taking place at The Old Town Police Station, 11 Royal Square, St Helier, Jersey. There will be a private view 6 pm Thursday 17th September.
A participatory performance will take place in the exhibition space at 6 pm Thursday 24th September: Terminating Martin Parr’s Liberation Photographs: a collaborative project between Tom Pope, Martin Parr and Archisle.
The performance offers you the chance to destroy a Martin Parr photograph and potentially save one! If you’re interested in destroying a Parr photograph, for more details please visit:
http://www.archisle.org.je/terminating_martinparrs/
Task: Write a review of Tom’s exhibition where you describe your own feelings and opinions.
- Try and choose 1 or 2 specific works that you either like or dislike and provide reasons for critique.
- Your analysis must be both an emotional and intellectual response to his work in the exhibition.
- Include information and context from Tom’s talk about his work at the exhibition space. Research and theory is central to Tom’s practice. Make links to some of the artists that Tom mentioned such as John Baldessari, Marcel Duchamp and Yves Klein
- For further context you must also read the exhibition text written by Gareth Syvret, Curator and Programme Leader at Archisle.
- Include direct quotes from this text in your own analysis and provide further commentary.
Here is link to Tom_Pope_exhibition_text
