Skip to navigation | Skip to content


« main 2007 page


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
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
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.

Blog Widget by LinkWithin
  • http://redredday.com/ redredday

    i love what you wrote about the second image. will go check out his work now…

  • http://redredday.com redredday

    i love what you wrote about the second image. will go check out his work now…

  • http://catvincent.livejournal.com/ Cat Vincent

    Stunning, scary work. Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…

  • http://catvincent.livejournal.com Cat Vincent

    Stunning, scary work. Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…

  • http://kirstyhall.co.uk/blog/ Kirsty Hall

    Cat wrote: Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…

    Yeah, that was one of the first things I thought about too.

  • http://kirstyhall.co.uk/ Kirsty

    Cat wrote: Thinking of a CSI plot right now, of course…

    Yeah, that was one of the first things I thought about too.

blog comments powered by Disqus

« main 2007 page