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As Sounds Turn to Nolse, Thomas J PriceBronze, 2023. (Courtesy the artist and Hausar & Wirth, at the National Portrait Gallery exhibition "The Time Is Now Always, Artists Reframe the Black Figure") https://flic.kr/p/2pPWfQHThomas J Price: In a practice that includes film, performance, sculpture and phatography, British artist Thomas J Price (b.1981) is best known for his large-scale psychological partraits of Black men and women Drawing on observed individuals, stereotypes perpetuated by the media, and historical references, Price combines Westem sculptural traditions with contemporary materials to challenge the under-representation of Black people within art history and to ask the question who should be memorialised?"As Sounds Turn to Nolse" bullds on Price's recent practice of creating monumental bronze statues using new technology to capture 3D scans of numerous Individuals to create a hybrid portralt of people and place, For this latest work, Price created digitally-compiled hybrids of the faclal. characteristics and physical mannerisms of a broad range of people from London and Los Angeles, in thls way, his approach highlights the fluidity of identities beyond soclal and racial profiling, whilst giving visibillty to bodles that are often marginalised or excluded from art history and classical sculpture.
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