{"product_id":"tom-hallimond-girls-night","title":"Tom Hallimond, Girls Night","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-single__description rte\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnframed 61 × 72.2 cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e“When I paint these works, there is often one figure that pulls me in more than the rest, someone I keep returning to, trying to understand, trying to hold onto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn this painting, it was her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe photograph comes from my grandfather’s archive in the 1950s, showing a group posed in front of a vivid green curtain. Yet my attention always drifted toward one figure, as if she were waiting to be recognised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eOnly later did I realise there was no person there at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhat I had been returning to was an urn surrounded by flowers, placed for a ceremonial moment after a funeral. Through looking, the arrangement slowly transformed into something else. A figure began to take shape where there had only ever been an object.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhen I asked my grandfather who had died, he couldn’t remember. The image had softened with time, losing its edges. And so the misreading remained intact long enough to become something else entirely.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis painting emerges from an encounter with a photographic archive, where memory, uncertainty, and invention begin to overlap. A figure appears within a reimagined historical moment, formed through both observation and imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInclusive of VAT, if exempt please contact bandits@sarabandefoundation.org\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"House of Bandits","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57973986951493,"sku":"ART-TH-GN","price":1140.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/7389\/9845\/files\/TomHallimond_2026_GirlsNight_2.jpg?v=1779282982","url":"https:\/\/www.houseofbandits.co.uk\/products\/tom-hallimond-girls-night","provider":"House of Bandits","version":"1.0","type":"link"}