Paperwork  | Tom Doig 

1st May – 5th June 2026 
Curated by Ben Stafford

Paperwork is an exhibition that engages with contemporary collage to present a series of improvised works examining the disappearing epoch of material knowledge in paper form.  

Paperwork is an engagement with the physicality of paper and its delicate power as a reliquary for shared visual information, taking the formal structure of archived human knowledge and reshuffling it to explore disassociated narratives. 

Tom Doig’s primary medium is collage, a process simultaneously arcane and contemporary. His source material – catalogues, encyclopaedias, resource books – reflect a societal impulse of “civilising” of the world into neat categories. Doig’s process involves cutting by hand from those found pages and assembling into composite images with glue, or leaving alone to become suspended in blocks of hand-poured resin, the images disjointed, dislocated, often unrelated. The resulting works – in the sum and the parts – question existing taxonomies, and suggest a world simultaneously richer and more chaotic.

More information on Tom Doig
https://tomdoig.wordpress.com/