Tom Palin

Born in Birkenhead in 1974. I am a painter, studying for a PhD at the Royal College of Art. Since graduation, from Liverpool, I have worked predominantly in oils on a small scale. I am interested in exploring (via memory) the boundaries that are perceived to exist between abstraction and figuration, the nature of 'loaded' iconography (of the everyday and the Romantic) and aesthetic questions posed by the physicality of material artworks. I currently work as an associate lecturer for Leeds College of Art and Design, and as a workshop leader for The Lowry. I co-founded Hydra Arts in 2006. I have a particular enthusiasm for the paintings of Maurice Utrillo, Caspar David Friedrich, Samuel Palmer, John Constable, Pieter Bruegel and Jan Van Eyck. Also, for a range of cinema that includes the films of Stanley Kubrick, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Errol Flynn, and for the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

PhD (Painting). The Royal College of Art (currently undertaking.
MA (Art History). University o Manchester.
BA (Fine Art). Liverpool JMU.

Solo Exhibitions
The Spotlight Gallery, The Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax.
Tom Palin: Against the Grain. According to McGee, York.
The Big Country: Works on Paper. Victoria Gal., Liverpool.
Tom Palin: Recent Paintings. York College, York.
Tom Palin. Leeds College of Art, Leeds.
In Two Minds’. Ashton Art Gallery, Ashton-Under-Lyne.
A Room with a View 2. View Two Gallery, Liverpool.
Between Then and Now. Dean Clough, Halifax.
A Room with a View. The Atkinson Gallery, Southport.
Pride of Place: A Painter’s Perspective. YSP, Wakefield.

Group Exhibitions
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. Mall Galleries, London.
Art on a Postcard. Soho Review. London.
The Discerning Eye. Mall Galleries, London.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
Free Things. STCFTHOTS Gallery, Leeds.
Wirral Society of Arts 7th National Open, Williamson.
Still. Studio 24, Mabgate, Leeds.
Housing the Homeless Exhibition. Hiscox, London.
New Perspectives in Painting. The Studios, New Mills.
The Marmite Prize IV, Tannery Arts, London.
The Marmite Prize IV, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth.
The Marmite Prize IV, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge.
The Marmite Prize IV, The Mackintosh, Glasgow S of A. ...