ResourceInterview with Tom Blake

Interview with Tom Blake

The Churchie Emerging Art Prize 2020 finalist

2 December 2020

The Churchie Emerging Art Prize 2020 finalist Tom Blake talks to with exhibition curator Talia Smith. Blake’s solo and collaborative practice contemplates the psychological, architectural, and technological frameworks that surround us, through fragmented moments, looped imagery, and recurring motifs. Drawing is the starting point for much of his work. His work has been exhibited at Artspace, AGWA, FAC, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Murray Art Museum Albury, c3 Contemporary Artspace, Firstdraft, and KNULP. He has been a finalist in the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, the CLIP Award, and The Blake Prize, and has been awarded a Clitheroe Foundation Emerging Sculptor Mentorship. He is part of Momo Doto, an ongoing collaboration with Dominique Chen.

The Institute of Modern Art acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the IMA now stands, the Jagera, Yuggera, Yugarapul, and Turrbal people. We offer our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first artists of this country. In the spirit of allyship, the IMA will continue to work with First Nations people to celebrate, support, and present their immense past, present, and future contribution to artistic practice and cultural expression.

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