History
In 1981 to the mid 1990s Thomas Lisle worked predominantly with Glitch TV images which formed the basis for a series of slide installations prints, books and videos.
These images where made by detuning TV sets to get new and unique abstractions and capturing the results on video and stills camera. The works are concerned with painterly abstraction as well as Televison culture. They are deconstructionist by nature. No actual painting is involved in the production of these artworks. Many hours of video tape and weeks of work to find exciting interesting glitches go into the making of these artworks, only a small percentage of the results would be selected for exhibition. The idea from the outset was to find new ways to abstract the figure and the portrait, to have a fresh new perspective on painterly abstraction, which resonated with the times and culture of the early eighties. As the artworks existed as photos and videos Lisle developed new and innovative ways to present the artworks as projections, making the artworks up to 10m wide for a single slide, the only limitation being the power the bulb.
The artist is currently reviewing and digitising his vast archive of glitch work, some 300 hours of video footage and approx 12000 transparencies. starting at the beginning and working his way to 1990 and his final glitch art piece "A Domestic Opera" which was part funded by the Arts Council.