School of Art

Contact Details

School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Tom Christison

Born: USA

Printmaker working mainly in lithography. Graduated with a BA in Fine Art: Drawing and Prints from the University of Wisconsin – Bau Claire in 1981. He went on to study at Arizona State University, graduating in 1985 with an MA in Printmaking. His teaching career includes posts as Assistant Professor at McNeese State University, Louisiana, 1993–96, and Lecturer of Art at the University of Tenessee, Knoxville, 1999-2006. He is currently a Lecturer of Art at the University of Iowa teaching courses on printmaking and drawing. In 2008 he took part in the Master Printmaker Residence at the Robert Blackburn Print Shop in New York. He is the director of his own private print studio, Sandhill Press, Iowa City. His work creates narratives dealing with themes such as regeneration and life cycles. He creates colourful montages with a combination of stone and plate lithography and latex paint applied by hand. Building up layers, each print can go through the press 15 – 20 times.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

The Price of Eggs PR3342 Prints




 
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