Tim Agent is fascinated by the processes involved in transforming one object or substance into another, then back again, then thinking about it. His art is both pilgrimage and shrine, drawing out notions of nature, technology, comedy and pointlessness. Agent describes his work as ‘the physical manifestation of the meta-physical’, revealing as it does many hidden meanings and possible interpretations.

Shedcarshed 2005 has a compelling circularity. Agent dismantled a shed and turned it into a car. The wooden 'car' was then loaded onto the back of a 'truck' and transported, along with spare pieces of the shed, down the A1(M) for exactly 38 and a half miles, his age at the time, and then back up again. Now ‘de-transformed’ into the shed once more, the piece seems to smoulder with the ambiguity of the exercise, forcing us to question what it is he’s doing.

His new installation Bicycle And Vitrine 2007 features an array of objects, both found and not found. Dye-sprayed banknotes recovered from an armed robbery, for example. They may be there, or they may not. Their presence, or perhaps lack of presence, forces us to re-evaluate societal constructs such as 'presence', and 'example'. His work, overallly, forms an artistic buttress against the pressures of modernity, mass production and global capitalism. It also challenges both our perceptions of art and the perception of art within itself.