My recent paintings use the city as a starting point to explore formal issues of geometry and colour and to express the excitement and dynamism of the city.
I have always regarded drawing as my way of coming to grips with an idea on the assumption that if I can generate a satisfactory graphic solution, I shall have reached a more complete understanding of its subject.
There are several constants to Tommy Seaward’s process: his work is three-dimensional, always wall mounted and each piece is divided into three precisely spaced, vertically aligned segments.
In my practice I use the cognitive associations that occur in the materiality of photographic processes, moving image and installation to explore notions of memory, imagination, analysis, poetics, stillness and movement.
“The idea or source materials for my work is often an image from the media, a photo I have taken, a sentence someone said, a line from a book or a song, a photo or headline from a newspaper, a scene from a film, that triggers inspiration.