Tom Dawson

I make 16mm films and wall drawings that use pictorial elements such as illusion of depth, layers, pattern and a limited colour palette. Wall drawings work in a space like sculptures to be walked along, to be seen up close and from a distance. My films pick up on rhythms and materials in small areas of the urban landscape, they pass through the park, go from the frozen canal to the cracked glazed tiles of the railway arch and back, and escape into the countryside. I use in-camera editing, shooting 100ft in about 2 hours. The films follow in a 1970s style of filmmaking pre-occupied with film as thousands of still images and also a single image unravelling in time. Primary and secondary colours like green grass are used like paint straight from the tube. I’m inspired by colour as material.