Subsystem is the first solo exhibition from recent Camberwell graduate Tom Pearson. Presenting a series of complex graphic relief prints that utilises new technology and traditional printmaking techniques.

Intrigued by technology and the highly mechanised societies we live in, Pearson explores the way that certain symbols and images can precipitate complex chain-reactions in the imagination. Taking the structure and systems of the world around us as reference points he produces large print based works that investigate the relationship between reality and fiction. The seemingly abstract images all follow a similar sets of principles from parameters around us, the ubiquity of the shapes a result of the similarities between science, technology and communication.

Using a series of rules and models, Pearson develops a vocabulary of shapes and patterns which he then combines into a series of prints. The constant feedback of information means that repeated motifs and fractured mechanical images merge with diagrams, observational drawings and data to slowly build non-linear modular compositions. The printing process used by Pearson also complies with the conceptual framework. Exploring experimental printmaking whilst a student Pearson arrived at the use of a laser cutter. The accidental interruptions that occur when images are interpreted by such controlled process juxtaposes them with the rigidity of the frameworks that created them.