'An eight-minute video loop is running on a wall mounted monitor screen. The video appears to show a rusted and crudely assembled hand tool slowly rotating and tumbling in black space while spot lit from above.' - Tom Beesley

An animation short rendered from a 3D digital scan, Tom Beesley's 'Beneath the Street, the Fertile Soil' (2016) is part of his forthcoming practice-based PhD thesis, and was shown in October 2016 as part of his 'de-, dis-, ex-' exhibition at Bloc Projects, Sheffield.

Tom is a doctoral student at the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. His exhibition, 'de-, dis-, ex-', was a culmination of his engagement with the themes and ideas that emerged from the Future Works Masters Architecture studio at the University of Sheffield, which he observed for six months in 2015-16. In a chapter of his forthcoming thesis, Tom describes his experience with 'Future Works':

'Architecture - as envisaged and put into practice within Renata Tyszczuk's and Julia Udall's Future Works module - opened a field of engagement that was both challenging and thought provoking. I was particularly struck by the extent to which the students were pressed into dealing with real-world issues in live projects that involved hands-on physical interventions as well as communication graphics.'