#214 TAKING YOUR LEAP OF FAITH!
Roy Tyson creates witty and intriguing imagery with customised miniature figures in photographs and art installations. The former car mechanic and pharmacy sales rep is a self taught photographer/artist with works represented now by Saatchi Arts. Commercial clients include Ted Baker and Apple. His work involves adapting OO sized model railways figures and photographing these installations, including a miniature man waiting for his scale model electric car to charge from two AA batteries, canoeists emerging out of a spill from an upturned cup of thick vanilla milkshake and a sign of the times; a Covid testing station where a bottle of vaccine towers over a small Santa who has brought this gift to a line of socially distanced figurines waiting for the present to be served up.
This is photography that makes you smile, though it’s sometimes darker with a wry twist and tackles social issues too. This is artistry that as an installation would doubtless draw you in close wondering at its inventiveness. Roy talks of how he stumbled across miniaturism and the experiences he has had ‘making it’ as a photographer and artist ever since.
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