Ideas from Tomar
Between 2nd July and 16th July 2025, I was artist in residence at Studio459 at Tomar in Portugal. During the residency, I generated ten ideas for artworks, including installations, collections, interventions, performances, durational projects, which all respond in some way, or take a starting point from this notion of the discarded. The ideas range from the pragmatic, the plausible, to the inconceivable.
Bound in this publication are the aforementioned ten ideas accompanied with a photograph both analogue or digital. An A5 coloured insert includes the loose sketches supporting each idea and a card table breaking down the deliverables of each ideas in the form of duration and cost.
Shaun C. Badham is an artist based in South Essex, working in a variety of medium, processes and contexts. His project-based practice explores notions of the discarded in both objects, structures, places and histories, and how a form of site responsive re-imagining can take place. Through a series of observations, the overlooked can generate long term durational projects through a task driven, pragmatist mentality to create a new understanding of our relationship to space. Through artistic interventions and public activation, established societal categories such as ownership and intended use are challenged and transformed.
