Tom Stockley is a queer performance artist, producer, poet, writer, designer, organiser and semi-professional idiot living, working and wiggling across the South West. Informed by a century of counter-culture, their practice flirts with the humour, beauty and sadness of every day life by any means necessary. After graduating from a Fine Art BA in 2016, they have expanded their practice to include collage, photography, short films and live performance, often created collaboratively with other artists and in community settings. Increasingly this has included theatre, a medium that they stumbled on entirely accidentally but seem to be doing ok at. They are interested in our human experience, collectively and as individuals, creating conversations around identity, culture, mental health and the places we call home. They are also a qualified youth worker and have been working in youth and community roles since 2011, and believe in the value of all people who feel othered and abandoned. In 2016 they appeared as a rock in an international theatre production and burnt their art degree. In 2017 they appeared in a BBC3 Documentary. In 2018 they were selected for the UK New Artists Residency Programme. 2019 was a bit of a quiet year to be honest, but in 2020 they produced an audio piece for BBC Arts and are generally working hard to exist and survive in a Bristol council flat with some humans and reptiles. They hope you have a lovely day xx
Some of their influences (in no particular order) include: Hovis Presley, Frank Sidebottom, Alan Vega, Guy Debord, The Chuckle Brothers, John Cooper Clarke, Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Gaga, Marcel Duchamp, Jeremy Deller, David Robilliard, Ray Johnson, Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Angus Fairhurst, William Pope.L, Viva Hamnell, Viv Albertine, William Burroughs, David Lynch, David Wojnarowicz, Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch, Leigh Bowery, Monster Chetwynd, Daniel Johnston, Ivor Cutler, Grayson Perry, Poly Styrene, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, LINDER, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Creed, David Shrigley, Joolz Denby and George Lucas.
For more information, inquiries and ideas send a message to t.stockley@hotmail.co.uk, find his facebook page or tweet them.
Some of their influences (in no particular order) include: Hovis Presley, Frank Sidebottom, Alan Vega, Guy Debord, The Chuckle Brothers, John Cooper Clarke, Genesis P-Orridge, Lady Gaga, Marcel Duchamp, Jeremy Deller, David Robilliard, Ray Johnson, Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Angus Fairhurst, William Pope.L, Viva Hamnell, Viv Albertine, William Burroughs, David Lynch, David Wojnarowicz, Patti Smith, Lydia Lunch, Leigh Bowery, Monster Chetwynd, Daniel Johnston, Ivor Cutler, Grayson Perry, Poly Styrene, Sarah Lucas, Tracey Emin, LINDER, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Creed, David Shrigley, Joolz Denby and George Lucas.
For more information, inquiries and ideas send a message to t.stockley@hotmail.co.uk, find his facebook page or tweet them.
© Tom Stockley 2015
