The End, 2021
I often use historical photographs, paintings, or just found images from photographers who interest me as a source. There are some re-occurring themes in my work, in particular with my latest work that focuses on a particular period in the history of art, re-appropriating the past from a contemporary perspective.Tomas Harker
Tomas Harker (b. 1990, United Kingdom) lives and works in London. His works addresses the nature of meaning in conditions of mediated experience and hyperreal saturation. Harker’s practice often draws from a variety of image production and distribution systems in an attempt to make sense of a cosmic order becoming increasingly disordered. His paintings reflect the increasing murkiness and confusion of contemporary life, whilst remaining mindful of the dynamics of power benefiting from uncertainty. Exhibitions include Multiple Choice Fairytale Ending, The Sunday Painter, London (2023, solo); New Ancients, Guts Gallery, London (2023); The Artist is Present, Guts Gallery, London (2022); Apotrope, Cob Gallery, London (2022); I haven’t been Sleeping, Screw Gallery, Leeds (2021, solo); Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (2021); Third Nature, Copeland Gallery, London (2021, solo); A Sea in Suspense, Bo.lee Gallery, London (2019, solo); There’s something about Painting, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (2019); Cite, Bo.lee gallery, London (2018); Syzygy, Leeds Arts University, Leeds (2018).