Tom Abba makes collages, books, immersive experiences, and deals with the relationship between form and content across multiple platforms. His work is principally concerned with the world as a site of pressure — what accumulates at a site, what a place withholds, and the ways in which the visual record and a person’s experience of somewhere can be accurate and entirely misleading at the same time.

His immersive work is catalogued here, and includes These Pages Fall Like Ash with Duncan Speakman and Emile Grenier, From Bitter Ground and Roads to Withered Hill with David Barnett.

Recent collage series include Cosmic, a body of large-format collages exploring geological time and astronomical scale; Folk Horror, twenty-six square collages drawn from British vernacular imagery and edgeland sites; and Undercurrents, a sequenced series concerned with water and the body, collected into a limited edition artists book.

A parallel practice in artists’ books runs alongside the studio work. These manifest as experiments in form and content, addressing the existence of a book as a material object distinct from any other form, and occupying a site between reader and a narrative form finding purchase there.

Other work includes Antiquities, an ongoing inventory of found and inherited objects treated as archaeological finds, and Photopoetry, experiments in combining photographic images and poetic text as a single visual unit.

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Selected exhibitions and publications are listed in the CV. For enquiries about works, commissions, or editorial use of images, use the contact form.