Islington Exhibits

Thomas is an artist living and working in London. His practice spans sculpture, painting, collage, print and digital illustration.
His work is a series of ongoing structural collages.  New visual systems and Patternation emerge from the destruction and rearrangement of digital and printed images, materials and ideas.

Throughout the first part of 3 micro projects in association with Rowan Arts Thomas Mitchell was in conversation with the residents of Holloway. Thomas was based within the pop up café on Saturday 7 May 2011, and invited any locals or interested individuals that wanted to participate in an exciting spoken word art project to have an informal interview with the artist.

The image is of a piece entitled Shoot constructed of layers of paper fixed onto a length of claret satin, Shoot is dense with imagery of shotguns and wild game cut from a popular hunting publication. The work is a humble construction, but imbues a new interpretation of its materials. Paper becomes fur, fabric like skin.

On the 4th June Thomas Mitchell hold an altered books workshop at First Saturday, the Old Fire Station, Mayton Street, N7, editing and reinventing collected and donated literature with the residents of Holloway.

The workshop was inspired by previous Holloway locals Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell’s guerrilla book project. From 1959-1962 Orton and Halliwell stole numerous publications from local libraries, only to return them in an altered state, most with a new element of satire, humour or crudity attached.

All artists books created on the 4th were showcased on June 14th in a specially constructed library of altered publications within the Old Fire Station.