Thomas Cameron
Thomas Cameron paints everyday scenes, presenting and defamiliarizing the overlooked, understated, fleeting moments in life, imbuing the everyday with a sense of beauty and grandeur. Film is another important influence in terms of this elevating of everyday subject matter and the telling of untold stories in, for example, the social realism of British kitchen-sink dramas. Especially interested in pictorial devices, and how these can be used to create a psychological landscape as in the work of directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky and Wong Kar Wai. By making use of such filmic qualities in his work, a narrative is suggested, one that is left open for the viewer to interpret.
Thomas Cameron (b. 1992, Helensburgh, Scotland) lives and works in London. He received his MA in Painting at City and Guilds of London Art School (2022) and his BA Fine Art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee. Recent exhibitions include ‘What Happens When Nothing Happens’, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2024); ‘Contemporary Domesticity II’, Taymour Grahne Projects, Cromwell Place, London (2023); Gertrude x Canopy Collections, 4 Princelet Street, London (2024); Camden Arts Centre, New Contemporaries London (2023); ‘City Scenes’, Taymour Grahne Projects, London (2022) amongst others.
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B. 1992, Helensburgh, Scotland. Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2022 MFA, City and Guilds of London Art School, London
2014 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
2013 Erasmus, Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany
Solo Exhibitions
2024 What Happens When Nothing Happens, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
2022 City Scenes, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
2021 New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 The Future of Loneliness, Guts Gallery
2024 Contemporary Domesticity II, Taymour Grahne Projects, Cromwell Place, London
2024 Gertrude x Canopy Collections, 4 Princelet Street, London
2024 John Ruskin Prize, Seeing the Unseen, Hearing the Unspoken, London
2023 Layers of Time: Moments Interwoven, Contemporary U, Taiwan
2023 Camden Arts Centre, New Contemporaries London
2023 Grundy Art Gallery, New Contemporaries, Blackpool
2023 X Pink 101, X Museum, Beijing
2023 BBA Art Prize, Kühlhaus, Berlin
2023 RBA Rising Stars, Royal Over-Seas League, London
2023 Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Cottage, London
2022 NOW Introducing, Studio West, London
2022 Selects: Volume 1, London Paint Club, London In Formation, Thames-Side Studios, London
2021 New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London / Firstsite, Colchester
2019 Scottish Portrait Awards / Scottish Arts Club / Glasgow Art Club / Kirkcudbright Galleries
Selected Awards
2023 John Ruskin Prize
2023 Shortlisted for the Artists' Collecting Society Studio Prize
2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2023 Morrison Foerster (London) Art Prize
2023 RBA Rising Stars
2022 Leverhulme Trust Scholarship
2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2019 Dewar Art Award
2018 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award (2015,2016)
2014 John Milne Purvis Prize
2014 Radiology Art Award, Ninewells Hospital Collection
2013 Stevensons Erasmus Scholarship, University of Glasgow
Collections
UK Government Collection
X Museum, Beijing
Morrison Foerster Collection, London
Grampian Hospital Art Trust, Aberdeen
University of Dundee, Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection, UK Private Collections in the UK, USA, China, France and Germany