Tom Godwin

Artist

I'm a Coventry born artist working in surreal, experimental photography and collage. My work focuses on creating views of the future for the viewer to interpret in their own personal way. I use a range of techniques and media to create futuristic landscapes or structures.

Photography makes up a large amount of my practice. My process merges both analogue film photography and digital post processing to achieve the final result. This acts as a merging between the future and the past within the medium of photography and links in with the focus of my practice. I also use collage to create futuristic landscapes.

I take most the inspiration for my imagery from different forms of science fiction. Films such as “2001 a space odyssey” have been very influential on the creation of my imagery as well as novels by the author Kurt Vonnegut specifically “The Sirens of Titan”. I am fascinated with the different ways in which the future is interpreted and how it can range from utopia to apocalyptic. The work of Richard Orchardson has been very influential in the development of my practice, I find his approach to the future to be very intriguing and inspiring.

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