- Société Jersiaise’s resident photographer is exhibiting his work at the old police station
- ‘I Am Not Tom Pope, You Are All Tom Pope’ is due to run until 4 October
- Take a sneak peek at some of his work in our gallery below
- What else has Mr Pope done ‘for art’ in the past? Find out below
Tom Pope is coming to the end of his six-month stay in the Island and has created an exhibition called ‘I Am Not Tom Pope, You Are All Tom Pope’ at 3 Vine Street in the Royal Square.
As part of his project, Mr Pope trawled through up to 15,000 photographs from the Société’s image archive.
‘I wanted to look at the concept of archiving and what archiving means and how that could be approached in a contemporary way,’ he said.
‘For one bit of the work I made 16 face masks from photos in the archive. I printed those faces as life-size masks, went out into the public and got people to wear them and I took photos.
‘I also printed photos from the archive and took them to workshops.
‘At those workshops I got people to flip casino chips on to the images.
‘Wherever the chip landed I would cut round it and make that into a badge for the person to wear.
‘It was a way of getting people to interact with images from the archive.’
Mr Pope’s exhibition is due to run until 4 October.
As part of an art project earlier this year Mr Pope asked people to help him push a boat from Gorey Harbour to St Ouen. Starting the challenge at 5.30am, he was joined by three composers who improvised songs along the way.
