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Tobi Deeson
Biography
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May to September, Mixed Media, 2006
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I use unconventional yet feminine materials such as textiles and decorative fabrics to explore, from a child�s and adults vantage point, the lasting and influential impressions people leave on one another.
Beauty within my work is of great importance and there is a constant juxtaposition of aesthetically pleasing objects with unsettling, if still preciously made subjects.
Cabinets are used to contain and restrain and fabrics are used to remind of an era now gone. My practice often takes the form of a series of objects; these are then interchangeable when being presented. This allows for a fluid narrative which can respond to a variety of spaces and constant refreshing of ideas, as there is no end to a piece.
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May to September, Mixed Media, 2006
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Dead Singer, Mixed Media, 2005
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Dead Singer, Mixed Media, detail, 2005
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Untitled, Clay, 2006
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Shown above is Tobi�s first London solo show where she created a site specific installation made of flowers intricately cut from 70�s bed sheets, to hang from floor to ceiling over a large plate glass mirror.(May to September,100,000mph Gallery)
The effect is a forest of flowers, full of the promise of nature and a new spring. However on close inspection, the flowers are fake, mass-produced from cheep bed sheets and the mirror, a cold hard material only able to reflect, not grow and give life as spring promises. Small white plaster animals appear, feotus like, perhaps mutated even. These too evoke new life and beginnings but their cold small bodies, not quite of life, lie on stony ground.
Tobi�s work clearly references family history and personal relationships but avoids sentimentality and narcissism and instead evokes a cultural memory in a bed sheet, and a reminder that it is the shared personal and practical details of everyday life lived, in which social life, change and personal endurance are found.
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Future Projects;
Tobi has a First Class Hons in Art and Design, and in Sept 07 she will be starting her MA at Goldsmiths in Fine Art.
In November she�s exhibiting at The Fieldgate Gallery in Houses in Motion and in spring she is curating and exhibiting in a show at Transition Gallery titled Arboreal.
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Untitled,Mixed Media, 2006
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Tobi is an artist living and working in London. Alongside her practice she teaches at The Brit School for Visual and Performing Arts and is on the Board of Directors for Transition Gallery.
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