divining rods

source: citygalleryorgnz

Tom Dale is a London-based artist who was born 1974 in Kendal, England. He graduated from Goldsmiths College, London in 2006 with an MA in Fine Art. He also holds a BA (Hons) in Sculpture from Sheffield Hallam University. His videos, sculptures and installations have been shown through out the UK, Europe and the U.S.A. Recent exhibitions include a solo show, ‘Template’, at the Union Gallery London, 2007, and group shows including ‘Reckless Behaviour’, Getty Museum, L.A., 2006, and ‘13+’, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, 2008. His work is also held in a number of public and private collections. Forthcoming exhibitions include a solo show at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, Poland.
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source: copperfieldgallery
Tom Dale (b. 1974 Kendal) explores ideas around the preposterous and absurd, using sculptures and film to make explicit the inherent contradictions of the grand gestures of culture and society.

Dale studied Sculpture at Sheffield Hallam University (1997) and an MFA at Goldsmiths (2007). He was a doctoral researcher at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge from 2009 – 2013. His solo exhibitions include Black Attols, NIMAC, Nicosia, Cyprus (2015-2016), Department of the Interior, Copperfield, London (2014), Terminal Blue, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (2014), Zero is Immense, Aid & Abet, Cambridge (2013), Arnolfini & Art in the Public Realm permanent sculpture commission, Bristol (2013) Formal Pleasure, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland (2012) Memorial Drag Strip, Poppy Sebire Gallery, London (2011), Shot Through, IFC Cinema, New York (2010), Six Flags, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2008), Back Seat Driver, City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (2007)

Group exhibitions include Trio Biennale, Rio, Brazil (2015), Take You There Radio, Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble (2015) The Written City, Bruges Triennial (2015), L’Hospice des Mille-Cuisses, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland (2015), The Art of Pop Video, FACT, Liverpool (2013), Curator’s Egg Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (2012), The Art of Pop Video, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne (2011), UR-NOW: The Ruins of the Contemporary, Whitstable Biennale (2010), Deceitful Moon, Hayward Gallery London (2009), Videonale 12, Kunst Museum, Bonn (2009), 13+, Florence Llynch gallery, New York (2008), Reckless Behaviour, The Getty Museum, L.A. (2006)