Tom Blake, holding (loop / index), 2022, cyanotype, artist-made brass frame, 41 x 31cm. Courtesy: The artist and N. Smith Gallery.

Tom Blake’s practice draws on fragmented moments, looped imagery and recurring motifs as potential sites for contemplating the psychological, architectural and technological frameworks that surround us.

With drawing as a starting point, holding leaves (index) sees momentary gestures, cinematic compositions and recurring motifs fragmented, re-composed and repeated across the space. Viewed together, themes of opacity, time, disintegration, touch, reflection and the potential for the chaotic within apparent moments of stillness, emerge across the works.