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JACK TANNER

Born in 1989, Surrey, U.K.

Process is at the core of Jack Tanner’s practice. He creates highly structured artworks, where viewer experience and pattern combine with an expansive approach to depth, colour and surface repetition. His works reflect an expert understanding of geometries present within nature: a certain purity of form inherent in the world's mathematical formulae. Using everyday hardware such as wood and screws, Tanner’s geometric installations display an elegant and fascinating interplay of optical illusions. His three-dimensional paintings appear to shift before the eye, changing in their appearance depending on the angle by which they are viewed.

Trained from a young age by his father as a cabinet maker, Tanner's practical abilities are refined beyond his years, and it was in 2012 when his grandfather gifted him a bag of repurposed screws that he realised its potential as a primary medium. Each artwork begins with a concept in mind, followed by a highly generative practice which builds off his own methodology, his latest works with spray paint and shaped canvas marking an incredible departure into broader depths of field. Tanner's artworks always display both a profound understanding of mathematical systems, such as his screw series, which are an outstanding, tenacious and colourful display of pattern.

Tanner graduated in 2012 with a first from Wimbledon School of Art. His artworks have received exceptional responses from collectors around the world, and he continues to present at a number of group exhibitions and art fairs after a notably outstanding debut at Woolff Gallery in 2018.

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SHAPED CANVAS

Tanner’s most recent works are driven by a wish to further elevate his surfaces, toying with colour gradients on a larger scale. Stretching canvas into bewitching reliefs, these works' supple glows of light are a direct response to the demands of the canvas presented to him. It might be the sky at the fall of day, or the colour of rippled reflections on the ocean: Tanner brings out the many faces of his perceived environment with perfectly rendered visual arrays of hand-mixed paint.

Jack Tanner

CHAMELEON II

Acrylic on shaped canvas

125 x 125cm

£7000

Jack Tanner

CORAL CHARM

Acrylic on hand-shaped canvas

82cm diameter

£3500

Jack Tanner

HIGH CONTRAST 3

Spray paint on hand-shaped canvas

50 x 50 cm

£2000

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SEASONAL SHIFT SERIES

Growing up in a family of makers, each of them wood-workers in their own right, equally exposed Tanner to wood from a young age. With his move towards more series-based works, wood was the natural choice when he was driven to explore beyond the limits of a screw, a move which led him to produce this simply astounding series of interlocking surfaces inspired by the gradual shifts of season. 

Jack Tanner

SEASONAL SHIFT WS

Acrylic on hand cut wood

62 x 62cm

£4500

Jack Tanner

SEASONAL SHIFT SA 

acrylic on hand cut wood

62 x 62cm

£4500

Jack Tanner

SEASONAL SHIFT SS

acrylic on hand cut wood

62 x 62cm

£4500

Jack Tanner

SEASONAL SHIFT AW

acrylic on hand cut wood

62 x 62cm

£4500

GEOMETRIC WORX

Tanner's expert ability to make physical the three-dimensional is a rare skill best exemplified by his geometric screw worx. He cites Chuck Close and Bridget Riley as main inspirations, translating from a flat surface in his studio towards an imagined depth and an excitement to see what turns out. 

Jack Tanner

LATTICE

 Oil and pozi screws and board

96 x 63cm

SOLD

SOLD

Jack Tanner

HEXAGONAL SHIFT

Acrylic and spray paint on pozi screws and board

96cm diameter

WoolffGallery_Jack Tanner_Crossing Paths

SOLD

Jack Tanner

CROSSING PATHS

Oil on pozi screws and board

96 x 96cm

If you are interested in any of Jack Tanner's Geometric worx, please click on the button below to enquire. 

SCREW SERIES

Tanner's grids are a natural progression from his geometric screws, inspired by the idea that you might see one thing on approach, yet through the process of experiencing it, come to view another. These vibrant, pulsating installations play directly with our vision: up close, it’s a set of painted screws, yet from a distance, it’s a patterned mirage which fades into hue as you walk past.

WoolffGallery, Connect series, Jack Tanner

Jack Tanner

CONNECT series,

Pozi screws and acrylic on board 

 34 x 34cm each, x9

SOLD

Jack Tanner

SLICE series

acrylic on pozi screws

34 x 34cm each, x9 

SOLD

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EARLY SCREW WORX

Tanner's most dynamic works are also his earliest. Directly inspired from nature, be it the patterns of flying starlings or shoals of bait balling fish. He describes his instinctive and relational way of working in his studio:

“The thing that I like when making these pieces is creating organic patterns - when say drilling a thousand holes for the Murmuration and Frenzy pieces, I realised I was working in a similar way to the starlings and the fish, each time reacting to what I made before, and again building up depth through a step-by-step process of proximity." JACK TANNER

Woolff Gallery_Jack Tanner_Murmuration VII_Acrylic and spray paint_pozi screws_

SOLD

Jack Tanner

MURMURATION VII

59 x 126cm

Pozi screws and acrylic on board

'Shoal' Spray paint and pozi screws on board 104 x 154cm 2018 Jack Tanner(1).jpg

SOLD

Jack Tanner

SHOAL

104 x 154cm

Pozi screws and spray paint on board

If you are interested in any of Jack Tanner's screw worx, please click on the button below to enquire. 

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