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Wales Arts Review Interview: Beep Wales Winner Tom Banks

DATE:   WRITTEN BY: SUSIE WILD  POSTED IN: ARTICLES, RECOMMENDED, 
Tom Banks is the winner of the 3rd Beep Wales International Contemporary Painting Prize 2016, for his oil on canvas ‘Meta Vita II’.The exhibition is on display at Swansea College of Art until 3 September 2016 and then touring to Wrexham and Cardiff. Curated by Jonathan Powell, the director of the artist-led elysiumgallery and studios in Swansea, it features the commended work of the 49 national and international contemporary painters selected from all the entrants to the prize.
 Here Tom explores his craft, his influences, and the winning painting.

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