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Tom Moore

• Glass, video, and animation artist, South Australia
• Email: tomatmaproom@hotmail.com

Tom blogs about hybrid practice and his move into animation in the Pathways Blog.

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The youngest of three children, Tom Moore was raised in a town renowned for it's circuitous streets, in a house full of books and animals, on better than average food.

A certain tone was set when, as a toddler, Tom was brought along to protest the erection of the Canberra telecom tower for environmental and aesthetic reasons.

As an adolescent with singular fashion sense, Tom attended 'School Without Walls' studying: Sexism, Religion and Metaphysics, Fine Art and Social Change.

A knitted hot water bottle cover so impressed the interview panel that Tom was admitted into the Glass program at Canberra School of Art, where he developed as an untamed weed.

In 1995 Tom started training in production glass blowing at JamFactory Craft and Design Centre in Adelaide, during this 2-year period Tom produced very many bottles, bowls, jugs dishes and vases as well as continuing to develop exhibition work.

A couple of years of wandering between furnaces ensued as Tom travelled between engagements as a visiting artist at Art schools in Adelaide and Canberra. In 1998 Tom undertook a 3-month fellowship at the Creative Glass Centre of America in New Jersey.

Soon after returning to Australia, he was offered the job as production manager back at JamFactory in Adelaide. This job entailed training recent graduates from art schools in some of the tricks of production tableware; co-ordination of the workshop as an access facility; and production of commissioned works including trophies, corporate gifts and antique repairs.

Tom currently divides his time between working for the JamFactory and making his own artwork at the Blue Pony Studio. Blue Pony is an old warehouse now shared by 6 glass artists - it is here that Tom assembles dramatic arrangements of glass and mixed media.