Tom Andrew is a UK-based artist currently creating work under his own name, while also collaborating as one half of the creative duo BLACKWALL.
Tom Andrew’s work focusses on ideas of movement, emotion and consciousness, themes explored through experimental lighting and printing processes.
For the past five years Tom’s artwork work has explored altered states of internal experience. Through the use of a strobe light, he investigates the layered physical and psychological experiences that shape human perception, observing interactions between the conscious and subconscious.
About
INTERPERSONAL
The void of the studio becomes a home where deep interpersonal relationships formed in households are put on display. Photographer and filmmaker Tom Andrew explores time, emotion and consciousness through fragmented moments found within compositions of conventional portraiture.
In a body of work inspired by Ego State Theory, a concept that addresses how distinct patterns of thinking and feeling influence our behaviours and interactions, the works present people Tom encounters in his daily life, photographed in groups or alone according to the situation they live in.
Photographed under a sequence of strobe lights, each flash captures a unique moment. Collections of ego states are contained within the layered depth of a single image, suggesting that understanding truth is an accumulative and infinite process.
Current project
Short film
16 HOUSEHOLDS
Screened as part of the INTERPERSONAL exhibition.
5 min 07 sec, single channel HD video, sound, looped.
Exhibition
Interpersonal was shown as part of Photo Oxford 2025 at Magdalen Road Studios in association with the charity Oxfordshire Mind, raising funds and awareness for mental health.
The exhibition featured short film ’16 Households’ and twenty-two photographs with accompanying dialogue from those who appeared in the work. Subjects were asked questions about their past, present and future, forming a deeper understanding of what exists between the layers and relationships found within the artwork.
