Terminal Blue

source: hansardgalleryorguk

Over recent years Tom Dale has produced a body of work for both galleries and public spaces, bringing to both the same dexterity and questioning vision. Terminal Blue will concentrate on the following pieces, two of which are important works in the development of his practice that are for the first time, to be fully realised, as well as one set of works that have been commissioned especially for John Hansard Gallery.
Terminal Blue – the title work of the exhibition – forms the first part of the show, uniting art specifics, as much of Dale’s work does, such as questions of scale and definition, with more phenomenological ones. The piece is partially participatory, consisting of a banner being flown across the sky by plane in the form of a giant-sized colour swatch that details the shift from dark blue to light blue. Seen across the skyline at a specific time, details and a copy of the colour swatch, including the commercial paints names of the colours, will be printed in the local press giving people in the city the opportunity to make a comparison with the swatch and sky that day.
Another work is Infinity Wall, an apparatus that enables the gallery space to continually record, produce and destroy its own memory in real time. The printed images, which will emerge from one of the gallery walls, only to be shredded minutes later, will accumulate in the space over the duration of the exhibition leaving the detritus of its own memory to mingle with the other works in the show.
Key to the exhibition will be an important new body of work which will occupy the central gallery space. A series of sculptures will take their cue from an earlier series of digital images, and, like the two central commissions, these objects will in their own way seek to make sense of the changing dynamics between interior/exterior space which Dale sees as something born out of the impact of digital and virtual space.
A fully illustrated publication produced in partnership with Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre in Cyprus will accompany Terminal Blue, with a contribution from the writer Brian Dillon, curator of the recent Ruin Lust exhibition at Tate Britain, and Jon Wood, Research Curator at The Henry Moore Institute. The publication will be available in summer 2015.
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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.