Terence Bond is one of British art’s most original thinkers whose work embraces all forms of expression and whose expressions never fail to provoke. Bond sees himself as being concerned with ‘the reperesentation of everyday, commomplace experience’, what Jasper Johns called ‘things we see but never look at’.

Bond is especially adept at using humour to provoke but it is not a humour that is stage managed and his work is never played purely for laughs. He merely focuses attention upon what is already around us, details lost to us by familiarity, so refreshing the perceptions with which the World is…

Terence Bond is one of British art’s most original thinkers whose work embraces all forms of expression and whose expressions never fail to provoke. Bond sees himself as being concerned with ‘the reperesentation of everyday, commomplace experience’, what Jasper Johns called ‘things we see but never look at’.

Bond is especially adept at using humour to provoke but it is not a humour that is stage managed and his work is never played purely for laughs. He merely focuses attention upon what is already around us, details lost to us by familiarity, so refreshing the perceptions with which the World is viewed.

His juxtaposition of the everyday into settings that are anything but are a triumph of both eye and mind; his photgraphic work ‘youth’, where four kittens seem to form themselves into the shape of a swastika was nothing more than an observation of nature, of kittens photgraphed whilst feeding. Conversely, ‘Family Ware’ was a conscious melding of stereotypical school book images with the idea of the family dinner service but the effect of both pieces is the same. They make you smile, they make you look again but, most of all, they make you think.

Terence Bond was born in Essex and lives in East London.

His work was shown at the New Contemporaries exhibition at the ICA in 1981 and he has remained at the fulcrum of British modern art with his work featuring in many private collections across Britain and Europe, as well as in the Saatchi and Arts Council collections. He also has work in the Wadsworth Athenium in the United States.