Tom Flint
Encyclopedia
Tom Flint is a British artist. He studied Fine Art Printmaking
Printmaking
Printmaking is the process of making artworks by printing, normally on paper. Printmaking normally covers only the process of creating prints with an element of originality, rather than just being a photographic reproduction of a painting. Except in the case of monotyping, the process is capable...

 at The Slade School of Fine Art
Slade School of Fine Art
The Slade School of Fine Art is a world-renownedart school in London, United Kingdom, and a department of University College London...

, London from 1995 to 1997, under the professorships of both Bartolomeu dos Santos
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos was a Portuguese artist and professor who specialized in the plastic arts, with an emphasis on printmaking and engravings....

 and Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean
Bruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...

.

He is best known for his dark and foreboding cityscape
Cityscape
A cityscape is the urban equivalent of a landscape. Townscape is roughly synonymous with cityscape, though it implies the same difference in urban size and density implicit in the difference between the words city and town. In urban design the terms refer to the configuration of built forms and...

s full of sarcasm and wit, which were shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize
Jerwood Drawing Prize
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, formerly the Cheltenham Open drawing competition, is the United Kingdom's leading award in contemporary drawing. It is claimed to be the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK...

in 2010.

External links

  • http://www.jerwooddrawingprize.org/tomflint
  • http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/English/Collections/OnlineResources/X20L/objects/record.htm?type=object&id=298425
  • http://www.jerwoodvisualarts.org/page/3084/Tom/34
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK