Tom Hardwick-Allan
Tom Hardwick-Allan (b. 1996, Derbyshire, UK) lives and works in London.
Tom Hardwick-Allan scratches away at an array of surfaces. He treats image making as a digestive process in which the shapes of ideas are broken down to activate the latent chemical potential they contain. Continual revision is a means of staying in dialogue with the work; which traces metonymic links between falconry, printmaking, digestion and augury. Guided by a principle of negation (or decreation) in this searching excavation, he attempts to dislodge a framework through which something from another side might arise.
Recent exhibitions include White Trash, The White Ermine (Düsseldorf, 2024), TIMESCAPES, Shtager&Shch (London, 2023), NADA, South Parade (New York, 2023) and Halbe Sachen with Stanislava Kovalcikova, Galerie Khoshbakht (Cologne, 2023).
CVPublication: Studio Log
Installation View: A separate place between the thought and felt, South Parade, 2024
Group Exhibition featuring: Peter Brock, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Judith Dean, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Tulani Hlalo, Motoko Ishibashi, Rosa Klerkx, Gillian Lowndes, Terence McCormack, Dorothy Mead, Andrew North & Katie Shannon
Tom Hardwick—Allan, After the Numbers, Before the Numbness, 2024. Ink, acrylic, pen and pencil on carved birch plywood, 112 (H) x 102 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Installation view: White Trash, The White Ermine (Düsseldorf, February – March 2024)
Installation View: Tom Hardwick-Allan, Catching the First Mute Sliced in the Morning, NADA New York, 2023
Tom Hardwick-Allan, X, 2023. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner, biro and pencil on carved birch plywood, 57 (H) x 61 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Y, 2023. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner, biro and pencil on carved birch plywood, 70 (H) x 67 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Z, 2023. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner, biro and pencil on carved birch plywood. 55 (H) x 51 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Olt, 2022. Acrylic paint marker, acrylic ink, permanent marker, pencil and biro on carved birch plywood, 116 (H) x 67 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Installation view: halbe sachen, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2023. Duo exhibition with Tom Hardwick-Allan & Stanislava Kovalcikova
Tom Hardwick-Allan, BMY, 2023. Acrylic, ink, marker pen, pencil, biro on carved birch plywood, 34 × 38 cm
Installation view: Material Poetics, South Parade at The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London, 2022
Installation view: Tom Hardwick-Allan, Scrying the Slice, South Parade, London, 2022
Tom Hardwick-Allan, ᛚ, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 76 (H) x 79 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
(Detail) Tom Hardwick-Allan, ᛚ, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 76 (H) x 79 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, 𐑕, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 50 (H) x 41 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Ԑ, 2022. Acrylic, ink, market, fine-liner, biro and pencil on carved birch plywood, 66 (H) x 78 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, 𐊀, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 57 (H) x 57 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, ट, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 55 (H) x 52 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
(Detail) Tom Hardwick-Allan, ट, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 55 (H) x 52 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, მ, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 64 (H) x 56 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
(Detail) Tom Hardwick-Allan, მ, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 64 (H) x 56 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, ٢, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 45 (H) x 40.5 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, 8, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 100 (H) x 74 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, ୧, 2022. Acrylic, ink, marker, fine-liner and biro on carved birch plywood, 107 (H) x 102 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Y (falcon feeds atop slice of fallen tree), 2022. Wood engraving print on Zerkall paper, 19 x 19 cm, 1/11 + 3 AP’s
Tom Hardwick-Allan, X (falcon slices mute into falconer), 2022. Wood engraving print on Zerkall paper, 19 x 19 cm, 1/11 + 3 AP’s
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Z (lightning slices tree), 2022. Wood engraving print on Zerkall paper, 19 x 19 cm, 1/11 + 3 AP’s
Installation view: Tom Hardwick-Allan | Elif Saydem, Lady Helen, Berlin, 2022
Installation view: Tom Hardwick-Allan, Going Light, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, 2021
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Kee, 2021. Ink, feltip, fineliner, highlighter, biro, pencil and paint-marker on carved birch plywood, 110 (H) x 64 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Hoo, 2021. Ink, feltip, fineliner, highlighter, biro, pencil and paint-marker on carved birch plywood, 110 (H) x 65 (W) x 2.4 (D) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Untitled, 2019, silver gelatin print, 37.4 (H) x 24.8 (W) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Untitled, 2019, silver gelatin print, 37.4 (H) x 24.8 (W) cm
Tom Hardwick-Allan, Untitled, 2019, silver gelatin print, 37.4 (H) x 24.8 (W) cm
Installation view: Breathless: London Art Now (curated by Norman Rosenthal), Museum Ca’Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, IT, 2019-2020.
Photo copyright Thomas Adank/ Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
(Larry Achiampong, Alvaro Barrington, Alice Channer, Matt Copson, Nicolas Deshayes, Ed Fornieles, Anthea Hamilton, Tom Hardwick-Allan, Celia Hempton, Evan Ifekoya, Lydia Ourahmane, Eddie Peake, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, Prem Sahib, Victoria Sin, Issy Wood)
(Detail) Tom Hardwick-Allan, Caustica, In Distro, Settling Dust, Catching the First Mute Sliced in the Morning, Introducing Woodworm, Birch Rings Bird Wings, Snowmen and Speedbumps, Green Jumbo Flip Queen, Woodcut Cookbuk, Flight as an Unfolding Figure of 8, Consider the Darkenss, The Beermat Collector´s Handbook, Putting Down the Gauntlet, The Hot Air Trick, Love Drip Lapse Into Dread, Confessions of a Blastodiscer, Foke Art, 2019, dimensions variable, woodcut prints on bankscream paper mounted around birch plywood.
Exhibited at Breathless: London Art Now (curated by Norman Rosenthal), Museum Ca’Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Venice, IT, 2019-2020.
Photo copyright Thomas Adank/ Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
Woodcut Books, 2019. Wood cut prints mounted on birch plywood, dimensions various