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Podcast: The Arts House
Episode: Work of the Week 57 Tom Climent "Eden"
Description: This week Conor Tallon spoke with Dr. Michael Waldron, Assistant Curator at the Crawford Gallery in Cork, about Paradise! Existing somewhere between representation and abstraction, between the real and spirit worlds, Eden (2019) by Tom Climent is exemplary of the artist’s practice in its distinctive style and modulation of colour.Adopting a landscape form befitting its evocative title – the Earthly paradise described in the Book of Genesis – it is geometric in nature and beautifully coloured. On closer inspection, we discover that it is a work not only in oil paint, but with plaster and sand also applied to the can...