Ant Hamlyn & Tom Faber

Click the play button to hear the audio that accompanies the artists’ work at Leicester City Takeover.

Hamlyn & Faber connected through a UKNA project, ‘United’ which took place in Leicester and Norway in 2019. Following this, UKNA commissioned the artists to create a collaborative work for the City Takeover in Leicester 2022.

Ant Hamlyn's works delve into our relationship and fluctuating enthusiasm towards contemporary life. Working across a pollination of handmade and digital making processes his works regularly have anthropomorphic elements that work with metaphor, technology, illusion and timing to create moments of anxiety, awe and surprise through material and visual obscurity. Alongside exhibitions in New York, Moscow, London, Melbourne and Beijing. Ant has built installations for the Zabludowicz Collection, FACT, Victoria and Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy and more recently 'B L O O M' at Daisy Green Collection on the Grand Union Canal, Paddington.

Tom Faber’s work focuses on memory, place, and transformation. He produces both videos and digitally printed images, using a blend of techniques from drawing, painting, collage and 3D animation. Faber works with a library of scans, consisting of detritus from his studio and from the ground - paint marks, soil, drawings. With these materials he develops a language of distortive mark-making and plays with the possibilities of digital gesture. Converting these sources allows him to explore the assertive, faulty generations of memory, and the resonances of virtual ‘world-building’ at a time of environmental damage.