Brooke Benington
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • Shop
  • News
  • Contact
  • Fairs
Cart
0 items £
Checkout

Item added to cart

View cart & checkout
Continue shopping
Menu
  • Forthcoming
  • Past
  • Online

Glade: Thom Trojanowski

Past exhibition
10 March - 22 April 2023
  • Images
  • Overview
  • Works
  • Installation Views
  • Press release
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Thom Trojanowski, Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023

Thom Trojanowski

Bone white by an unflinching Sun, 2023
Glazed ceramic, cotton canvas, bleach, rope, soil, wild flower
Dimensions variable
Unique
Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson. Courtesy of the artist and Brooke Benington
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22artist%22%3EThom%20Trojanowski%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_title%22%3EBone%20white%20by%20an%20unflinching%20Sun%3C/span%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3E2023%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EGlazed%20ceramic%2C%20cotton%20canvas%2C%20bleach%2C%20rope%2C%20soil%2C%20wild%20flower%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3EDimensions%20variable%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22edition_details%22%3EUnique%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 7 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 8 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 9 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 10 ) Thom Trojanowski, Deep in the shade of the rack, 2023
In scale slightly smaller than average, Trojanowski’s figure is positioned in a sinking repose: not idle but deeply connected through his soft pillowed weight. Detailed ceramic hands and feet have...
Read more

In scale slightly smaller than average, Trojanowski’s figure is positioned in a sinking repose: not idle but deeply connected through his soft pillowed weight. Detailed ceramic hands and feet have anatomical vitality, accentuated by a grey speckled glaze that settles around the tendons, contrasting with earthy brown nails. His ceramic face, fungus-frilled around the edges, houses real wildflowers. This man of soil is in contemplation as he raises his face to the sky and tree canopy.

Trojanowski has consistently returned to the forest as a site of exploration and metaphor -whether Tunstall Forest near Suffolk or Hoge Kempen outside Genk, Belgium where he now lives. A personal champion of the Japanese custom of forest-bathing and its positive effects on mental health and well-being this work references and instantiates the architecture of a glade as a psychological space to embattle the leaden mood of cold urban austerity and to use the power of memory and emotion to rekindle one’s relationship to the earth.

With its tied and stuffed puppet-like construction the limbs can be positioned variably in the space. The wildflower is tended with rainwater.

Close full details

Exhibitions

Glade, Brooke Benington, London (2023)

Previous
|
Next
3 
of  11
Back to Past exhibitions

 

 

info@brookebenington.com

 

We partner with Art Money

10 payments. 10 months. No interest.

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Privacy Policy
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2025 Brooke Benington
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences