Tom Wood

These three volumes of Tom WoodÆs new work, Landscapes, are drawn from the artistÆs extensive unseen and unpublished landscape work. The first volume concentrates on WoodÆs photographs made in response to the West of Ireland, County Mayo, the landscape of his birthplace and childhood and an area he has returned to as an artist almost every year since 1975. Taken over decades, views of this wild and remote landscape, many of them glimpsed from the car, bus or train during his journeys there, are combined with fragile fragments of surviving family photographs, video stills, and intimate and affectionate portraits of day-to-day life within a rural community. The second volume consists of WoodÆs landscapes predominantly made within Merseyside, where he lived and worked for 25 years, from 1978û2003. In this more urban environment, his landscapes encompass pictures of peopleÆs homes and gardens, parks, wastelands, and the river Mersey. Wood moved to Wales in 2003 to address what he has referred to as ôthe matter of