b. 1993, U.K
Lives and works in London
Faber’s work focuses on memory, place, and transformation. He produces both videos and digitally printed images, using a blend of techniques from drawing, painting, collage and 3D animation.
Faber works with a library of scans, consisting of detritus from his studio and from the ground - paint marks, soil, drawings. With these materials he develops a language of distortive mark-making and plays with the possibilities of digital gesture. Converting these sources allows him to explore the assertive, faulty generations of memory, and the resonances of virtual ‘world-building’ at a time of environmental damage.
Within this framework he degrades and recycles images. Producing scenes which often have a harmonious surface, these works tend towards the lush escapism of popular animation, but collapse under the effects of weather. Faber’s image-making techniques point towards the natural world but hover and stall in anxiety and escapism. They find ways of weathering material into a state of erasure, simulating threats to vast and intimate systems.
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Education
Chelsea College of Arts – Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts (Distinction), 2017-18
University of Cambridge – BA (Hons) History of Art, 2012-15
Solo Exhibitions
May 2019 Quarry, Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia
Selected Group Exhibitions
February 2022 UK New Artists City Takeover, Leicester Contemporary
September 2021 Photo London, Somerset House
June 2021 VideoFenster, Cologne
Beyond, Kovet.art show at CADAF Paris
October 2020 Read the Room, Cube Gallery show at Art Athina (Athens Art Fair), VR Show
June 2020 Delineating Dreams, Kovet.Art, VR Show
November 2019 Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
August 2018 SEA(S) 2018, Ionion Centre for The Arts and Culture, Kefalonia
July 2018 A Manifesto of Ecology, Phoenix Gallery, Athens
June 2018 Three, HartsLane, London
May 2018 Offsite, Safe House, London
April 2018 One, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Februrary 2018 Snorkel, The Cookhouse, London
Residencies
June and October 2019 ‘United’, UK Young Artists and Platform Nord, Leicester, UK, and Kristiansand, Norway
April 2019 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
Commissions/ Awards
November 2019 Winterreise, digital set design for an audio-visual staging of Schubert’s song cycle
November 2019 Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Graduate Award (shortlisted)
October 2019 Glyndebourne Tour Art Competition winner