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Tom Friedman transforms familiar household items, from masking tape to toilet paper and toothpicks to bubblegum, into delicate and intricate art objects. With breathtaking precision and conceptual wit, he creates work which never fails to delight and intrigue and offers a glimpse of Friedman’s very individual way of looking at the world.

Friedman’s previous work includes a self-portrait carved on an aspirin, a life-size tarantula modelled from human hair, and thousands of multi-coloured pills made from play dough. The works in his South London Gallery show reveal an equally extraordinary, often obsessive, attention to detail.

They include two cleverly crafted Styrofoam figures, one giant, the other tiny, craning their necks to peer at each other; an elongated Cheerios box, painstakingly assembled from four original Cheerios packets cut into tiny pieces and reconfigured; and a large intricate drawing created, centimetre by centimetre, by individually copying and scaling up a photograph of a forest.