Thomas Doyle
Unsurprisingly, given the prevalence of small objects in my own work, the idea of the miniature has always fascinated me. It’s easy to fall into kitsch with it though, something that Thomas Doyle manages to avoid. Instead, his tiny worlds capture and reveal intense moments of strangeness in which we’re the ultimate voyeur.
Sometimes it’s pretty clear what’s going on, as in this piece:
Thomas Doyle: The reprisal, 2006
But in others, the narrative is far less obvious, leading to an art that speaks of fracture and dislocation.
Thomas Doyle: They draw you out, 2006
His work makes me think about that moment in a dream when the unnerving quality of an almost normal situation suddenly overwhelms you and you start to slip inexorably into a nightmare.
i love what you wrote about the second image. will go check out his work now…
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Posted by redredday on August 29th, 2007 @ 7:14 pm
i love what you wrote about the second image. will go check out his work now…
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Posted by redredday on August 29th, 2007 @ 8:14 pm
Stunning, scary work. Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…
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Posted by Cat Vincent on August 29th, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Stunning, scary work. Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…
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Posted by Cat Vincent on August 29th, 2007 @ 11:44 pm
Cat wrote: Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…
Yeah, that was one of the first things I thought about too.
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Posted by Kirsty Hall on August 29th, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Cat wrote: Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…
Yeah, that was one of the first things I thought about too.
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Posted by Kirsty on August 30th, 2007 @ 12:15 am