BIO: 

TOM MARYNIAK primarily works as a printmaker illustrator to construct imagined visual narratives using traditional woodblock techniques. Sourcing ideas from his interests in literature and photography, history and cinema, he amalgamates these references with the aim of constructing what he would consider a pictorial poem with a dream-like quality, focusing on a tension or emotion within the work through the objects or people represented.
His interest in pattern making and repeat motifs often find their way to and from these images into ribald and alternative wallpaper designs, ranging in content from the sexually subversive to the comical and playful. Alongside his printmaking Tom also has a collaborative practice under the name Maryniak & Mclean, an artist duo who combine the mediums of performance, video, installation and mistake.

WEBSITE: 
http://www.tommaryniak.com/

PROJECT: 

Theatre Dieu et Mon Riot presents: Go West Young Man - An improbable Farce in three acts |  As an artist usually content in the defined arena of artist-printmaker, Tom Maryniak here presents a new departure in his solo work, constructing an installation where he also gets to play the roles of playwright, storyteller, set designer, builder and theatre director and in doing so attempts, in an unashamedly amateur way, to play the role of God as he sets out bringing his theatre to life. Having identified and reflected over some of the conflicts in his own personality, from drunkard to abstainer, spendthrift to miser, Tom introduces three entities of his character as the main protagonists in this, his debut play.

Alongside one of his largest and most experimental woodblock prints to date, Tom presents a stage maquette which, in this estranged self portrait, starts almost like the beginning of a bad joke with a rake, a wanderer and a grafter walking onto a stage. Key to this project is the relationship created between the narrative and the viewer. Even if there are characters and settings, the plot remains unclear and the task of reconstructing the facts is left to the viewer. The resulting visual polyphony signals the diverse interpretive potential that lies in this theathrical imaginations, between the prologue and the epilogue.

PUBLIC PRESENTATION:
Artist Talk | 13/05/18
Open Studio | 24/05/18 to 27/05/18
Public intervention | 26/06/18