“…My TV started dying. It was an old Sony Trinitron widescreen I’d bought cheap on ebay. At first the colour became predominately orange, which lent everything I watched a warm glow. Nature programmes, the news, Antiques Roadshow – no matter what the subject, on my TV it had a saccharin, nostalgic quality. As the set continued its decline, the colour changed until it reached an intense, deep red. My viewing experience changed as well; now everything was disturbing and dreamlike, nightmarish even. Submerged. Not comforting at all and as disorientating as my insomnia.”

TOM GIDLEY

B. 1968, Birmingham, based London.
Tom Gidley gained both his BA (1990) and MA (1991) at Central St Martins School of Art, London. He has exhibited in group and solo shows internationally since 1992. In 2005 his first novel ‘Stunning Lofts’ was published by Metronome Press.