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Thomas

Hawson

I make things to make sense of the world. Using different basic making traditions, I explore our relationship with nature. By physically sourcing my own materials from the landscape and reinventing forgotten making traditions, I want to delve deep into the cultural contexts of places and people, through making. From this mostly physical and visual research I like to find ways to use these materials and basic making practices to make symbolic artifacts that have meaning for the present day. I often make these artifacts as props to create happenings or performances. I then document these happenings and sometimes the making of the artifacts themselves with photography and drawing. I use this documentary drawing and photography to make montage and dioramas and all together as a reflective tool. My ambition is to mediate between humanity and nature and demonstrate an optimistic and fruitful future for both.

Disciplines: Sculpture

Location: Jedburgh

Materials: Assemblage, Bronze, Casting, Darkroom, Pastel, Photomontage, Welding, Woodwork

www.thomashawson.com

@thomashawson

I make things to make sense of the world. Using different basic making traditions, I explore our relationship with nature. By physically sourcing my own materials from the landscape and reinventing forgotten making traditions, I want to delve deep into the cultural contexts of places and people, through making. From this mostly physical and visual research I like to find ways to use these materials and basic making practices to make symbolic artifacts that have meaning for the present day. I often make these artifacts as props to create happenings or performances. I then document these happenings and sometimes the making of the artifacts themselves with photography and drawing. I use this documentary drawing and photography to make montage and dioramas and all together as a reflective tool. My ambition is to mediate between humanity and nature and demonstrate an optimistic and fruitful future for both.

Previous Experience

Solo Exhibitions 2004 Handverk og Hönnun (Handwork and Design), Reykjavik, Iceland Gunnarsstofnun, Skriethuklaustur, Egilsstaethir, Iceland  The Faroe’s Crafts Society, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands Shetland Museum, Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland The Viking Ship Museum, Roskilde, Denmark 2015 Hippodrome, Eyemouth, Scotland Selected Exhibitions 2000 Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead 2000-2007-08-08-10-11-12-13-14-15-18 Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh 2001 Sit Up, Ettrick Riverside Gallery, Selkirk, Scotland 2001-02 Onetree, National Tour of UK 2008 Pauline Burbidge and Charles Poulsen Open Studio Guest Artist 2024 Material Truths, Royal Society of Sculptors, Old Post office, Scarborough 2025 Borders Art Fair, Visual Arts Scotland, Kelso Prestigious Commissions 1999 Roof Garden Benches, Oncology Unit, Birmingham Hospital 2000 Speakers Chair, Icelandic Parliament, permanent collection 2000-01 Crossing Furniture, St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow 2019 – On-Going Sculpture, Edgerston House, Scottish Borders 2020 ‘In-Form’ Sphere Project, Marchmount House, Scottish Borders

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