CC #1 is an artwork by the English artist: Tom Price.

Tom Price's artistic approach revolves around materials and is mainly led by innovative and experimental creative processes. The artist thinks of himself “as working in collaboration with materials, processes and phenomena, and that the final physical outcome is a product of mutual consent.”

One of the artist’s favourite mediums is coal. The artist admires its aesthetic characteristics, in particular its darkness and opacity, as well as its intrinsic and functional aspects. Coal is indeed one of the purest forms of carbon, the basic element of all known forms of life as well as a very important energy source for humans. Thanks to learning through experimentation, Tom Price developed a firm mastery in this medium and now produces a wide variety of artwork with it. 

In the CC series (Carbon Copy), Tom Price took inspiration from the carbon paper, traditionally used to make copies of documents. Here, carbon is not a medium for delivering the copy, but itself the subject matter and the starting point of the artist’s creative process. It is used as a principal ingredient of black printer toner; toner powder is dropped onto a surface, then partially displaced using compressed air and finally photographed. The resulting image is printed in black toner onto an aluminium substrate, creating the artwork. The camera and printer are thus simply tools to facilitate the translation of the material from one state to the next. 

Each work in the series is a unique print.