Tom Dale
Shot Through (2007) and Rubble Carousel (2010)

Horsebridge Arts & Community Centre, Gallery 1
10:00-18:00 Tuesday - Sunday

Tom Dale was born in Kendal, Cumbria, in 1974 and currently lives in London. He was recently appointed to a post-doctoral position at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Dale’s Rubble Carousel re-films,from a moving vehicle,projected footage of buildingsbeingconstantlydemolishedover the streets of East London. The chronology of the filmis chopped up by the cadence of the passing buildings, effectively setting up a jump-cut narrative between the different layers of image and time. Through the facade of the contemporary we see echoes of ruins past and those yet to come.Dale’s Shot Through also shows a ruin of sorts: a drum kit set up in the countryside that is suddenly subjected to violent assault and reduced, in the course of a kind of lethal drum solo, to picturesque (or maybe merely abject) fragment.