Formally trained as a graphic designer, young visual artist Tomi Heri stepped out from the world of design to pursue a career in fine art. Combining design philosophies with principles of fine art, Tomi’s aim is to develop new approaches and techniques in order to realize his ideas fully.

Recollecting purely from memory, visual artist Tomi crafts multilayered storyboards featuring events experienced and people he’s encountered, both locally and during his travels abroad, primarily to Yogyakarta. Some of these are executed on canvas, but often his ideas translated are eventually constructed as cut-out installations.

The shapes and objects in his storyboards represent life as he’s experienced it, working purely from memory without any references or documentation, a purely experiential outflow that speaks through the various mediums he utilizes in his art.