Bid the Gap
01 JULY 2023 - 20 JULY 2023
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Introducing Tom Mead
Mead is a figurative artist, living and working in London.
Challenging pictorial space, the fractured and overlapping nature of Mead's paintings convey a sense of life and movement over time, and explores the relationship between traditional painting and technology using 'glitches'.
Film having a huge influence on Tom, he becomes a director in his paintings. This means planning a scene, composing the shot and deciding what would happen over a length of time, with themes such as identity and existentialism permeating throughout.
At the age of 20, Mead became a finalist of Portrait Artist of the Year, and has gone on to exhibit in competitions including the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize, New English Art Club, Jacksons, ING and was part of the AR London Gallery Trail.
Notable sitters of Mead include Jazzie B, Laura Linney, Axel Ruger, Professor Green, Theo Faberge (posthumous) and Daniel Lismore.
Accolades:
Exhibitions
New English Art Club Mall Galleries 22nd June - 1st July 2023
Jackson's Painting Prize 2023 Online Exhibition
'REFLECTIONS' Blanco Gallery, Islington Art Factory 18 - 25 November 2022
Daniel Lismore Herbert Art Gallery and Musuem June - August 2022
A Material World Liliya Gallery 24 March - 19 April 19 2022
Portrait Artist of the Year Compton Verney 19 February - 5 June 2022
TAKING SHAPE Espacio Gallery July - August 2021
Art of London Augmented Gallery Trail Position 21 The Wolseley July - September 2021
SkyArts Lockdown Portraits July 2021
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2021 Coventry Cathedral May - June 2021
QUOTIDIAN Blanco Gallery 5th March - 1st April 2021
ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries (online) 2020
Clyde & Co Art Award 2019/20
Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize 2019 Piano Nobile Gallery 24th May - October
'Ideas and Imagination' Thames Chase August 2019
Degree Show Wimbledon College of Arts 14th - 22nd June
'Portrait Artist of the Year 2019 Tour' April - June 2019
Dover Street, Whitewall Nottingham, Newbury, Stratford, Chester, Lichfield.
'Portrait Artist of the Year 2019' Clarendon, Mayfair April 2019
'For Love or Money' Copeland Gallery March 2019
'Interpretations' Thames Chase August 2018
'Faces & Places' 5th Base Gallery February 2018
Thames Chase August 2016
Thames Chase September 2015
Interview, Videos and Publications
Art of London Augmented Reality Gallery Trail
Artit Magazine issue 11, Figurative and Portraiture
Portrait Artist of the Week with Professor Green
Cass Art, the Semi Final and Final
Teaching
Drawing and Painting Tutor at Sunny Art Centre June 2022 - February 2023
Private tutoring August 2022 - present
Portrait Drawing Workshop with Curtis Holder at The National Theatre April 2023
Other
Woking Art Society 2022 Judge, exhibition held at The Lightbox
