Tarzan Kingofthejungle



work︎︎︎







‘A Thousand-Armed Polyp’, 2023 - mixed-media installation, approx. 240 x 240 x 400 cm









‘Encephalitis’, 2023 - hand-carved gypsum ceiling tile, laser-cut mirrores Perspex, 60 x 120 cm








‘Macguffin 2 (bottle)’, 2023 - Evian bottle, fake ice, sand, glitter, scrabble pieces








‘Macguffin 1 (lantern)’, 2023 - battery powered LED lantern, fake ice, sand, glitter, scrabble pieces








‘Macguffin 3 (book)’, 2023 - ‘The Singularity is Near’ - Ray Kurzweil, fake ice, sand, glitter, scrabble pieces








‘Edifice, Epoch, Aether’,  2021 - 01:00 HD film (loop) installation




‘Winspit’, 2023 - giclee print of deckled edge Hahnemuhle bamboo paper, 96 x 41 cm








‘Crash 3’,  2021 - pencil, oil pastel and watercolour on paper, 19 x 30cm








‘Dog’,  2021 - 01:00 4K film (loop) (trailer)









‘777’,  2021 - lasercut mirror, 42 x 30 cm (each)








‘Macguffin 5 (1000 lumens)’, 2023 - battery powered LED lantern, aquarium gravel, dried wheat







‘It Set The Perfect Stage, Though The Curtain Time Was Vague’ (excerpt), 2022 - 13:00 HD film







‘MacGuffin/Vertebra (failure)’,  2020 - plaster sculpture, 90 x 60 x 110 cm

(installation view at  ‘Artifice, Ripped’, a group show at The Bomb Factory, London, March 2023)












‘Fruitless Descent’, 2023 - 4-channel video installation (03:38  loop)








‘Untitled’,  2020 - pencil on paper, 30 x 100 cm








‘Untitled (Lambzan)’,  2019 - print on paper, 29 x 42 cm








‘Untitled (Lambzan)’, 2019 (detail) - pencil on paper, 65 x 88 cm









CV



Shows

‘Greenhouse’ Curated by Ben Raz and Jean Watt, Set, London, 2024

‘Log 2: NovoStruct Hard Hat Area’ Plicnik Space Initiative, London, 2024

‘Half Truths’,  Curated by Vanessa Murrell, London, 2023

Troubled Water (Rea!), Lampo, Milan, 2023

OTO (RCA x LUX Moving Image), Fold, London, 2023

Artifice, (Ripped), The Bomb Factory , London, 2023
 
Babele (Curated by Caspar Giorgio Williams), Spazio Musa, Turin, 2023

Rea! Art Fair, Fabricca Del Vapore, Milan, 2022

Not Long But Very Good, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2021

Slade Degree Show,  London,  2021

A Way to Break Through, online show,  2020

Melon Cauli, Carolines Garden’s Chapel, London, 2019

Themselves Warehouse Festival, Unit 8, Copeland park, London, 2019

Art Show, Safehouse 1, London, 2019

Boys Don’t Cry, Karma Sanctum, London, 2019

Boys Don’t Cry, Candid Arts Trust, London, 2018

Themselves: Group Show, Five Bells , London, 2018





Publications, etc.

Worthwhile Unions #03 with Anna Clegg, Resonance Extra, 2023

Rea! Exhibiton Prize, Milan, 2022

Era Journal - Issue 15: ‘Up and Away’, 2022

Round Table Discusion: Emerging Technologies and Art, UCL Art Futures and Serpentine Gallery,  2021

Era Journal - Issue 14: ‘Get Real’, 2021

Thing 018: From the Drained Pool, Form IV, 2021

Collage, Or: A Fair Day’s Fiddle, Themselves Publication, 2020




Education

Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, BFA, 2021

Kingston University, Foundation, 2017



About

By creating ambiguous narratives, loosely based on personal experience, and observed synchronicities, I try to explore the nature of being, the real and the relationship between fiction and our phaneron. Film, sculpture, drawing and performance are all mediums I use to question myself and the things I come into contact with. By seeking sincerity in the absurd, and allowing it to permeate the mundane, my work can often be read as both whimsical and tragically heartfelt.










Contact

︎ tarzankingofthejungle123@gmail.com

︎ @tarzan_kingofthejungle