Tom Hacket is an artist who most recently has been concerned with an enquiry into the balance between ourselves and our placement through systems of language, translation regulation, and social grouping. He is particularly interested in how we use classification and taxonomy as a proxy for knowledge. Her utilises playful strategies to consider the expectations placed on the visual arts as a vehicle to locate meaning and knowledge for the viewer. He is currently interested in

I needed to put together a presentation for the 'Fireworks: Now' symposium at Aberystwyth University. ‘Fireworks’ is the name of my studios and the symposium was attempting to gather debate around the role of studios as communities of creative practice, a supportive alternative to apprentice schemes often with tremendously diverse work taking place within them. I was asked to speak about my current practice which has most recently involved setting up the 'Parental Conversatio