Tom railton is a multidisciplinary artist who uses unusual sculptural methods to create open-ended and ongoing pieces through experimentation with the aim to puzzle and dismantle the audiences interpretations and views.
He was born in coventry and worked and studied in leeds, later mixing and studying for his postgraduate degree at chelsea college of art and design, and throughout making and exhibiting a beautiful collection of works he has started being a technical instructor at sculputure and design in his old university.
Railton explains his creating process as never really knowing; sticking with the idea of not knowing what your going to make and immerse yourself into your own open-mind. His sculptures are often mythical and teases the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction which couldn’t possibly exist without his interaction. This sci-fi level to it reflects his desire to always add a joke or a level of irony into his pieces, which he calls ‘splinters” The subject matter and depth of his pieces are aiming to focus on what is actually there opposed to our attachments to it.
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