Tom Mcdonagh

Tom McDonagh is a visual artist working in London. Tom became an artist in New York, performing shadow puppetry in small downtown theaters. He has developed unique approaches to working with light and movement to create engulfing installations and smaller artworks. He often works collaboratively and facilitates artist-led spaces.

Tom's practice looks at the space between how things are and how things could be. He creates speculative installations using light, movement and silhouette, seeking a meeting place for our perception, imagination and politics. These psychological spaces explore our tangled feelings around the potential and peril of
emerging futures.

The ecological crisis is connected to a narrowing of our collective imagination towards the future. His practice asks how we actively repair and cultivate relations with one another and the biosphere. He looks towards exuberance in culture and nature, as both protest and antidote to our current malaise.