Tom Borgas has a practice the extends across across multiple fields in parallel, including gallery shows, project-based installations, private commissions, performance, education, and temporary and permanent public art. Drawing on research that spans across a range of disciplines including architecture, geology, the politics of public space, philosophy and media theory, his process draws on the structures and optics of digital media but subverts these motifs as a means of fostering vibrantly connective, physical, analogue activations of art, culture and community.

Tom has exhibited at shows and galleries around Australia including PICA (Perth), The Jam Factory (Adelaide), Artisan (Brisbane), Salamanca Arts Centre (Hobart), MARS gallery (Melbourne), Stockroom (Kyneton) and as part of the 2018 Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial. Commissioning bodies and collaborators include: UAP, The City of Brisbane, Rockhampton City Council, Splendour in the Grass, Sculpture Co, The Hilton Adelaide, Gravity and Other Myths for Adelaide Festival, The Adelaide Festival Centre, The City of Adelaide, Illuminate Adelaide and Renewal SA. Currently, works are in progress in partnership with Moreland City Council for Melbourne’s Level Crossing Removal Project, The District Council of Karoonda East Murray, OSCA and Nonda Katsalidis.

Tom’s practice has received support through contributions from the Australia Council for the Arts, Arts South Australia, Copyright Agency, NAVA and the Helpmann Academy. Tom lives and works on Kaurna country.

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Stockroom Kyneton, gallery two
13 July / 04 August 2019

TOM BORGAS
Hyperobject (Kyneton)

First coined in 2008 by speculative philosopher Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects are ecological objects with spatial and temporal dimensions the totality of which extends far beyond the limits of human perception. Examples include global warming, the solar system, all the styrofoam ever created and the stock market. Given our perception of these things is only ever partial, it is a concept that challenges traditional ideas of thingness.

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Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
08 October / 06 November 2016

TOM BORGAS
Artefacts IRL

This body of work began as an exercise in documenting the movement of athletes and dancers on Youtube. The translation was unapologetically analogue– a darkened room, a piece of copy paper placed over a laptop screen, the motion traced with a black pen as the video played. Through this process, a visual language developed and has gone on to inform a number of interventions and performances including the movement and documentation of 25 striped surveying poles in and around various archaeological sites in Spain and Portugal.

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TOM BORGAS & NONDA KATSALIDIS
Active Form

Back in 2018, Stockroom introduced Tom Borgas sculptures to Nonda Katsalidis, who subsequently commissioned Borgas’s Active Form - Maquette (Klein Blue) to be made in a much larger scale. The five meters tall sculpture now sits on Katsalidis property.

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