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Amy Tomlinson
Contemporary Art and Illustration BA Hons

University of Huddersfield

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: Contemporary Craft / Painting / Digital / Visual Comm / Film

My location: Blackpool, United Kingdom

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University of Huddersfield

Amy Tomlinson

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First Name: Amy

Last Name: Tomlinson

University / College: University of Huddersfield

Course / Program: Contemporary Art and Illustration BA Hons

Graduates: 2023

Specialisms: Contemporary Craft / Painting / Digital / Visual Comm / Film

My Location: Blackpool, United Kingdom

About

I'm Amy Tomlinson. I am an artist and former graduate student at the University of Huddersfield. My creative practice greatly explores geometric shapes in relationship with colour. Working with Medium density-fiberboard, acrylic paints, and glue guns, I laser cut, arrange and rearrange basic geometric shapes into three-dimensional sculptures that accumulate into evolving networks and grids. Through the repeated act of reconfiguring essential elements, I aim to challenge the perception of geometric simplicity and to complicate our associations of colour with shape.

The environments in which we live play a significant role within this series, as there are so many things that we encounter every day yet frequently overlook. Because geometric shapes have become so normalised throughout daily life, objects that we regularly come into contact with have started to grow familiar to us. We begin to see shapes hidden within the most simplest of things, some including the circular alarm clocks that wake us up in the morning, the triangular sandwiches we eat for lunch and the rectangular beds we snuggle into at night. Another concept that is greatly explored in the series is the relationship between some of the most basic and complex shapes, as well as the investigation of how juxtaposing forms leads us to associate with a variety of other things - the effects of colour association being one important factor in particular. Each of the 180 paintings mirror a new version of themselves by continuously reiterating their structure in various arrangements. Although they all appear to be alike, each is completely unique and is never repeated. When paired together, they deliver a complex interplay of colour and form while dancing in concert with one another, creating one enormous network. Not only are they exhibited differently each time, but how they are arranged also shifts with them.