Tommy Hawthorne

Title

Can You Find Right Way Up in Upside Down Situations?

Category

Photography and Digital

Description

The artists explores old passions and searching for beauty in a backwards contemporary world, two and a half years after a car accident which resulted in a traumatic brain injury.

A photograph of the beach at sunset with the lighthouse in the background by Shine Art Prize entrant Tommy Hawthorne

Title

Sun Stars at Nobbies

Category

Photography and Digital

Description

Sometimes, before we are truly awake, the eye beholds magic and elusive reciprocals at dawn.

A photograph of the beach at sunset by Shine Art Prize entrant Tommy Hawthorne

Title

Turning My Luck Upside Down

Category

Photography and Digital

Description

In 2017, the artist experienced a high-speed head-on car accident, where he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. He was 20 at the time.

This picture is significant in that it resembles an almost full recovery from the implications of what could have been a debilitating injury.

Not only being able to walk again, but to live autonomously enough to be able to imagine and seek the construction of beautiful art like this is something the artist is proud of.

A photograph of the beach at sunset with a hand holding a glass ball by Shine Art Prize entrant Tommy Hawthorne