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Simon & Tom Bloor were born in Birmingham in 1973. They have worked together since 2003 and are based in Birmingham and London.
Hey For Lubberland! 2009. Simon and Tom Bloor
Simon & Tom Bloor’s works and projects use a range of media including publications, drawing, sculpture and installation to investigate moments of utopian potential and flawed idealisms. With an approach to research that has been described as more ‘magpie-like’ than academic, their work often adapts existing texts and images culled from a variety of sources, filtering and re-presenting this information to reveal hidden connections and obscure histories or to create shifts in context that encourage new readings and alternative interpretations. Crossing the boundaries between art, design and social history their work moves beyond art’s continued fascination with the aesthetics of Modernism and into the uncertain territory of something more engaged with its social structures.
Fascination of Islands, 2011. Simon and Tom Bloor
The Bloors are currently exhibiting The Fascination of Islands – Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. Other recent exhibitions include Hit and Miss – Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Fifteen – S1 Artspace, Sheffield; Euphorbia Serrata – Sils, Rotterdam; My Native Vale – Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Hey for Lubberland! – Ikon off-site project, Birmingham; Extra Extra – China Art Objects, Los Angeles; As long as it lasts – Eastside projects, Birmingham; Mould the Universe – The New Art Gallery, Walsall; The Long Take – Moot, Nottingham; ARTfutures 08 – Bloomberg Space, London.
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Simon & Tom Bloor were born in Birmingham in 1973. They have worked together since 2003 and are based in Birmingham and London.
Hey For Lubberland! 2009. Simon and Tom Bloor
Simon & Tom Bloor’s works and projects use a range of media including publications, drawing, sculpture and installation to investigate moments of utopian potential and flawed idealisms. With an approach to research that has been described as more ‘magpie-like’ than academic, their work often adapts existing texts and images culled from a variety of sources, filtering and re-presenting this information to reveal hidden connections and obscure histories or to create shifts in context that encourage new readings and alternative interpretations. Crossing the boundaries between art, design and social history their work moves beyond art’s continued fascination with the aesthetics of Modernism and into the uncertain territory of something more engaged with its social structures.
Fascination of Islands, 2011. Simon and Tom Bloor
The Bloors are currently exhibiting The Fascination of Islands – Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. Other recent exhibitions include Hit and Miss – Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; Fifteen – S1 Artspace, Sheffield; Euphorbia Serrata – Sils, Rotterdam; My Native Vale – Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Hey for Lubberland! – Ikon off-site project, Birmingham; Extra Extra – China Art Objects, Los Angeles; As long as it lasts – Eastside projects, Birmingham; Mould the Universe – The New Art Gallery, Walsall; The Long Take – Moot, Nottingham; ARTfutures 08 – Bloomberg Space, London.
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