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Lives and works in Hasting

tom@tompope.co.uk
Instagram: @tom__pope

Currently an a-n Artists Information Company Artists Council member 2022-25 

SOLO SHOWS

2024 - Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Forma, Exhibition, London (collaboration with Matthew Benington) (forthcoming, 8-19 April 2024)2024 - Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Performative Lecture, Natural History Museum, (collaboration with Matthew Benington) (forthcoming May 2024)
2024 - Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Exhibition, Original Projects, Great Yarmouth (collaboration with Matthew Benington) (forthcoming 15 June - 21 July 2024)
2024- Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Exhibition, Big Old School Gallery, Tonbridge, (collaboration with Matthew Benington) (forthcoming September 2024)
2024 - Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Performative Lecture, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, (collaboration with Matthew Benington) (forthcoming 6 November 2024)
2024 - Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Performative Lecture, Kingston Museum,London, (collaboration with Matthew Benington) (forthcoming July-September)
2024 - Performance for launch of Terminating Martin Parr publication, London (forthcoming May 2024)

2023 - Almost Nothing but Blue Ground, Performative Lecture, Linnean Society, London (collaboration with Matthew Benington)
2023 - Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, Exhibition and performance, East Gallery Norwich (collaboration with Matthew Benington)
2022 - Carraeu, COLDENS, St Leonards
2022 - Terminating Martin Parr, ArtHouse Jersey (May 2022)
2021 - Almost Nothing But Blue Ground, performance collaboration with Matthew Benington
2020 - Art Workout, Frieze New York
2019 - One Square Club, Frieze Los Angeles
2016 - Light Traps, Gazelli Art House, London
2016 - Selected Ludic Ambiances, ArtLacuna, London
2015 - I am Not Tom Pope, You Are All Tom Pope. The Old Police Station, Jersey
2013 - So it Goes. George and Jørgen, London
2010 - The Escapades of the Higher Man, The Glynn Vivian Art Galley Swansea

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2024

San Francisco in Kingston: Muybridge and Panoramas, Kingston Museum, Eadweard Muybridge (forthcoming 10 May - 2 November 2024)
Reframed, Oldenburg Photography Festival, Oldenburg, Germany (upcoming August 7 2024)

2023
Made in Britain, Sotheby's, London

2021
UMBRA PENUMBRA ANTUMBRA, Flat Time House, London
A Generous Space, Hastings Contemporary

2019
Where You Are Not, Copeland Park Gallery, London
Generation Y, Platform Foundation, London
Poetry Lies In Between, City Leaks Festival, Cologne

2018
Interrupted Representations, Photofusion, London
Window Project 2012 - 2018, Gazelli Art House, London
Brighton Photo Fringe
How To Do Things With Words, ArtLacuna, London
40 40 40, 40 Greek Street, London

2017
Salon/17, Photofusion, London
Conceal/Reveal, Photo Oxford
Burning With Pleasure, Photofusion, London

2016
Loitering With Intent, The Peoples History Museum, Manchester
Attitudes to Reading: Library Interventions, Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds College of Art

2015
LUMEN, New York
Potenials.02, Photo London, Photographic Performance
Information Point, Bristol and Bath Art Weekender, Prior Park, National Trust, commissioned performance
Quintessence, Jersey Arts Centre
Beyond the Surface: a journey into the Unknown, Backall Studios, London

2014
Fountain Bike, various public spaces in Kensington and Chelsea
Silent Fore and Aft, (commissioned film) Night Contact Multimedia and Photography Festival
The Winner Takes It All, Tempting Failure, The Island Bristol

2013
Marseille seen by 100 Photographers, curated by Antoine D’Agata
Impossible Documents, London
Fight Of Fancy, Tate Britain
Tempting Failure, The Island Bristol
Ffilm 4, The Glynn Vivian Art Galley

2012
The Loneliness of the Middle - Distance Runner, Flux Factory, New York
Live Performance, Revolution, Atelier de Visu, Marseille

2011
The Wonders of the Visible World, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Show RCA, Graduation show, Royal College of Art, London
Potentials, Timeframe, Colchester, commissioned live performance
Prix Leica, FH Bielefeld, Germany
Studio Vortex 1, Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France
A Future Pumphouse, Pumphouse Gallery, London
Smashing Time, Ragged Museum, London

2010
The National Portrait Gallery, London Photograph of professor Steven Jones (photograph of the month April 2010), London
Album, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Park Night, Pumphouse Gallery, London
Enter Right, Exit Left, The Hockney Gallery, London
The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Foto 8 Summer Show, Host Gallery, London

2009
Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, The Photographers Gallery, London
Exposure, Format Photography Festival, Derby Dance (DeDa), Derby
Journal 1, Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France
Show, Artist in Residence, Dynevor, Swansea

2008
4 New Sensations, Saatchi art Gallery and Channel 4, the Truman Brewery, London
Welsh Photography Open, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
Group Show, Glen Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Group Show, Mission Gallery, Swansea
Through the Lens, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Free Range, Old Truman Brewery, London
Swansea Degree Show, Swansea Metropolitan University, Swansea

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2021
ArtHouse Jersey project grant

2020
a-n Artist Bursary 2020

2018
Winner of the ING Unseen Instagram Competition

2017
Photofusion’s Select Award Winner for the Salon/17

2016
Recipient of the Gazelli Art House Window Project
Recipient of the Artists Fund Award for the project One Square Club

2014
Winner of the Night Contact Grant resulting in commissioned new film in collaboration with Terry Smith

2013
Public Arts Grant, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Tempting Failure Bursary recipient

2011
Deutsche Bank Award Winner of the £10,000 Bursary
Prix Leica Photography Prize, Finalist

2010
Photograph of the month, National Portrait Gallery London

2009
Bursary Winner, Royal West of England Academy
Sir Leslie Joseph Young Artist Award, Shortlisted

PUBLICATIONS

2021
Loop Magazine, Issue 12 (Play)

2018
Lux, Responsible Luxury, magazine, Frieze Los Angeles Special

2016
British Journal of Photography May
The Guardian Weekend Magazine

2012
The Guardian Weekend Magazine
Deutsche Bank Art Magazine

2011
Hard Cover: Image Perspectives, Black Dog Publication
Prix Leica, publication in conjunction with show
A Public Space (Front Cover), New York

2010
Tom Pope The Escapades of the Higher Man, Publication for solo show

2009
Journal 2, Atelier de Visu publication in conjunction with show
Depending on Time, Jennie Savage’s book on the Cardiff Arcades
Hotshoe #158, Photography Magazine
Tom Pope, The Centre for Lens Arts and Science Interaction Publication

COLLECTIONS
The Deutsche Bank collection
The National Museum of Wales photographic collection
The National Portrait Gallery photographic collection
Leeds College of Art
The Jersey Photography Archive
Royal College of Art
Soho House

RESIDENCIES
Residency with Archisle, in the Photographic Archive of the Société Jersiaise, Jersey, 2015
Residency with Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France with Magnum Photographer Antoine D’agata, 2009
Artist in Residence at Swansea Metropolitan University, 2009
Residency with HAMK University of Applied Sciences Finland, 2007

EDUCATION
Ma Photography, The Royal College of Art, 2011
1st Class Ba (Hons) Photography in the Arts, Swansea Metropolitan University, 2008