Thomas Hicks - Biography I graduated from Kingston University in July 2004 with a degree in Illustration and Animation. During my degree I specialised in animation, working with drawn animation processes, 3D software and live action. After I graduated, I was a Runner at Framestore-CFC in Soho, London for several months. I then worked as a junior digital lab operator in the company doing restoration work on film projects such as ‘Fateless’, ‘The Constant Gardener’ and ‘Sahara’. In February 2005 I won a commission to make a music video for Warp Records for one of their artists called Gravenhurst, for the track ‘I turn my face to the forest floor’. The video won best music video in the ‘Holland Animation Festival’ in 2006 and best experimental film at ‘The International Festival of Cinema and Technology’ in New York. I completed a second music video for Gravenhurst for the single ‘The Velvet Cell.’ And designed the band’s album artwork for the album ‘Fires in Distant Buildings’ to go with the release of the video. I am represented by Passion Pictures for music videos and commercial animation. I work as a music video director, Illustrator, animator and create projections for theatre productions. I worked on projections for a play called ‘Outre’ directed by Darren Johnston, which ran in the Edinburgh festival in 2006 and later in the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the Southbank. In July 2007 I was working in New York, creating animation projections for a play called ‘The error of their ways’. The animation and film elements ran on 3 separate giant gauze screens, to sync in with the performance on stage and in Lisbon in 2008, I created animation projections for an opening to an animation festival called Monstra. It is really exciting for me to create animation to work with live music and performance. I have exhibited drawings and paintings in England, France and Italy. I am a prolific artist and produce work in many different mediums. I like to work with many processes and materials in the films and images I make. With each new project I want to try something new. I love to travel with my work and enjoy going to film festivals to present films I have made. I am in the process of setting up a studio space in town with two friends who I have collaborated with on many projects and I am looking forward to working on more collaborative projects in future years. I enjoy teaching animation workshops and have worked on some interesting projects over the last few years with Signals Media Arts on some interesting First Light projects aswell as other projects, teaching both traditional and more experimental workshops to a variety of groups and age ranges. I have just completed a short film I have been working on over the last year for a Channel 4/ Arts Council Scheme called Animate! with a film called ‘Unicycle Film’ and am currently working on another music video for a singer called Joshua Radin for Warner Bros. Records.