He mainly spoke about his aim to find out why he produces the things he does, he explains that this is key for all artist designers, as well as communication and how you have to persuade an audience. He also explained how Art is an active process and how it is ever changing and evolving.
Since working as an artist and a sculptor, he has also learnt new skills to help him be inspired by the work of others and to put new skills from other fields into his sculptures. For example he learnt net making when creating a 3000 square foot fabric net sculpture at Mappin Art Gallery and Aberdeen Art Gallery. The scale of the work is phenomenal and automatically intrigues you to explore the photo or the physical object. This inspires me to learn many skills within Art and Design to then help me with my future work, it suggests that the more skills you learn the more successful you'll become.
He discussed the idea of being able to control people easily with an object and space, and how he likes that his art can do this due to the abstract ideas he produces.
He believes that Art is a gift of the World. He likes ordinary, non precious things. Almost the idea of surrealism but not at the same time, as he doesn't like the corny and cheesy connotations that come with this. His work is different because of the displacement within it. He engages his audience through dislocation of objects and subjects, not the ordinary. It makes people stop and reappraise, giving them the idea of how do you fix the un-fixable.
Tom Hackett likes to question a lot of things but he believes that you have to believe in yourself and the work you produce but others need to believe in you as well in order for you to flourish and grow as an artist.
Bibliography
http://www.tomhackett.org/
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