Tom White
Tom White’s work revolves around the question of how the artist creates something more viscerally real than a mimetic, photorealistic representation of a person. His practice is rooted in a long-standing fascination with people and painting the figure; specifically, White is interested in how the artist captures an essence of the subject, and the phenomenological presence of sensation in painting.
White paints those who are closest to him, marking his works with an indelible emotionality that transports the viewer into the interior of a private moment in time. The paintings allude to an ephemeral narrative; they invite interpretation of and engagement with exactly who, what and where is being depicted.
Whether working on a large or smaller scale, the figures in White’s paintings are often greater than life-size. This scale lends itself to his painting process which harmonises expressive, gestural marks with more refined areas of painterly precision. Working from his own photographs he exploits the versatility of oil paint as a medium, balancing areas of thinly veiled brushwork with impasto marks to create an emphatic sense of mood and lighting.
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B. 1995. Lives and works in London.
Education
2020 - 2021 MAFA Painting - Camberwell College of Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Between the Shadow and the Soul, Kristin Hjellegjerde, London, UK
2023 The Odd Uneven Time, Grove London, London, UK
Group Exhibitions
2023 NEW NOW: Part 1, Guts Gallery, London
2023 Tomorrow is Tomorrow is Tomorrow, Kristin Hjellegjerde, London, UK
2023 Homecoming, Gallery 2, Tel Aviv, Israel
2022 Uprising, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Schloss Görne, Berlin, Germany
2022 Art For Ukraine, with The Auction Collective - Online
2022 Abstraction and Daydreaming, Quo Vadis, London, UK
2022 Emergence, The Room, London, UK
2022 A Body of Work, Grove London, London, UK
2022 ASSEMBLE, VO Curations, London, UK
2021 London Grads Now. 21, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2021 Under The Same Sky, Safehouse 1, London, UK
2021 Dix Artistes, St Clar, France
2021 Camberwell MA Fine Art Graduate Showcase, South London Gallery, London, UK
2021 UNMUTE, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
2021 Abjection as Abstraction, with Serving The People - Online
2021 Fresh Perspectives, with London Paint Club - Online
2020 irl: In Real Life, A-B Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2020 Art Number 23, Athens, Greece
2020 Tankers and Pumpers, gallery@oxo, London, UK
Art Fairs
2023 NADA Foreland, NY, USA
Residencies
2021 Blue Shop Cottage AMASSA Residency, Mauroux, France