28th October 2025 – Tony Blackmore
Tony Blackmore is an artist specialising in creating hand-folded reliefs using a single sheet of drafting film: a polyester-based film traditionally used by architects. Patterns, derived from simple numerical sequencing and created using only pencil and paper, form the composition of each relief before the drafting film is laid on top. Each line is then individually scored by hand before being hand-folded to create a relief form. Due to the matte transluscent quality of the film, subtle illusions of shapes and patterns appear to gradually change in tone as the angle of view or illumination changes. This creates additional depth and movement in the artwork. Tony also creates smaller artworks in colour by adding underlying layers of photographic lighting gels so the artwork’s surface colours appear to change in tone. He has recently experimented with layering up to four layers of drafting film. Set against a charcoal grey background, the differing transluscencies and opacities, highlight how the shapes evolve within the composition as they appear to travel across each artwork’s relief surface.
Since 2018, Tony has been represented by Cube Gallery, London. In the same year, he took part in the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and became a Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors (MRSS). The following year, he completed a commission for the penthouse suites at the five-star St.Regis Hotel in central Venice. He co-curated and participated in group show ‘Material Transformations‘ at Cube Gallery, London (2024). As Project and Artist Support for the 2024 E17 Art Trail he co-produced, as well as participated in Yes! Art; a celebration of local emerging and established artists at the William Morris Gallery. He participated in group show Striations (2024) at CLOSE, a rural contemporary art gallery in South Somerset founded by curator and art advisor Freeny Yianni RSA, and also had work displayed in the 2024 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Tony lives and works in London. He attained a first class BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture from Kingston University in 1993, a Postgraduate Diploma from the Cyprus College of Art in 2004 and an MA in Fine Art from the Wimbledon College of Art in 2013.