Tom Cartmill
Short statement about my practice
Change through time and the inevitable accumulation of experience are themes that have underpinned my practice from early on. The way that buildings and much used objects age, weathering and transforming with the passage of time, is a constant source of inspiration. I work at evoking ‘a patina of experience' in my pictures. This directly relates to the methods used to make my work, where I combine conventional painting techniques with more innovative processes.
Tom Cartmill
SELECTED AWARDS
2022 Aesthetica Art Prize | Future Now Artist
2019 Aesthetica Art Prize | Future Now Artist
2017 Rabley Editioning Prize
Sponsored by Rabley Gallery, to develop a limited edition print, launched at the 2018 London Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy, London
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 198th Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Momentum, Fitzrovia Gallery, London Art as an Idea, Tarpey Gallery, Derby
Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London
2023
170th Annual Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London
ART MATTERS 7, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
Bath Open Art Prize, 44AD ArtSpace Gallery, Bath
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells
Abstract Art, Sir John Madejski Art Gallery, Reading Museum, Reading
Colour & Monochrome, Tarpey Gallery, Derby
Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London
2022 - Derwent Art Prize, Oxo Tower Gallery, London
2022 - 169th Annual Open, Royal West of England, Bristol
2022 - Abstract Art, Sir John Madjeski Art Gallery, Reading Museum, Reading
2022 - Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells
2022 - Derwent Art Prize, Paris, France
2022 - Reflections, Tarpey Gallery, Derby
2022 - Cross Gallery Projects, Brisbane, Australia
2022 - UNMUTE, Dunoon Burgh Hall, Dunoon, Scotland
2022- 196th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022 - Black Swan Open, Frome
2022 - Sense of Space, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2022 - Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London
2021 - Fragments, One Paved Court, Richmond, London (solo)
2021 - PHYLACTERY, Gallery46, Whitchapel, London
2021 - Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, Wells
2021 - Reverberations (2 person show, with Ceramicist Michele Bianco) , Irving Contemporary, Oxford
2021 - 195th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2020 - ING Discerning Eye, London
2020-2021 - New Light Art Prize Exhibition, Scarborough Art Gallery (touring: Scarborough, Carlisle, Newcastle, London)
2020 - Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2020 - LOCKDOWN SERIES, Linden Hall Studio, Deal
2020 - OPEN iso, Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford
2020 - HouseBound, CAS (Chapel Arts Studios), Andover
2020 - Black or White, Cross Gallery, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia
2019 - 167th RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2019 - Past and Present Tense, The Crypt Gallery, London
2019 - Lines etc, One Paved Court, Richmond, London
2019 - Black Swan Open, Frome
2019 - In Reading gaol by Reading town, Turbine House, Reading
2019 - Painting Open, No Format Gallery, London
2019 - Micro, AIR Gallery, Manchester
2019 - Artists' Sketchbooks, Mount House Gallery, Marlborough College, Marlborough
2018 - Winter Group Show, Linden Hall Studio, Deal
2018 - The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2018 - Black Sawn Open, Frome
2018 - Painting Open, No Format Gallery, London
2018 - London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London | with Rabley Gallery
2018 - Drawing Open, No Format Gallery, London
2018 - Patrons and Donors, Reading Museum, Reading (until Jan 2019)
2017 - National Open Art Prize Exhibition, Bargehouse Oxo Tower Wharf, London
2017 - The London Group Open, The Cello Factory, London
2017 - ArtGemini Prize, Asia House Gallery, London
2017 - Black Swan Arts Open, Frome
2017 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2017 - SKETCH 2017, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough (then touring UK til 15th Dec)
2017 - DRAWN, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016 - Collaborations, Studio 53 Gallery, Salisbury
2016 - 164th RWA Open, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2016 - Henley International Festival, Henley
2016 - Brighton Art Fair, Brighton
2016 - Bookface, Rising Sun, Reading
2016 - Reading Contemporary Art Fair, Reading
2016 - Partitions, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2015 - Reading Contemporary Art Fair, Reading
2015 - Bookface, Rising Sun, Reading
2014 - Affordable Art Fair, Bowlish Contemporary, Battersea, London
2013 - Affordable Art Fair, Bowlish Contemporary , Hampstead, London
2013 - Distil, Studio53 , Salisbury
2013 - Frames of Reference , Corn Exchange, Newbury
2013 - SHP Summer Open, Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2013 - The Space Between , Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2012 - AfterWords, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2012 - Autumn Exhibition, Ark Conference Centre, Basingstoke
2012 - BOOKFACE - chapter 3, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading
2012 - Boundaries and Beyond, ReOrsa - Gallery@49 Contemporary Art Space, Bracknell
2012 - Greenham Open 2012, Corn Exchange & New Greenham Common, Newbury
2012 - Life Force, Corn Exchange, Newbury
2012 - Reading Contemporary Art Fair, Rivermead Complex, Reading
2011 - All That Remains (ReOrsa project 5), More Arts, Wokingham
2011 - Parcel Fever II, OpenHand OpenSpace, Reading
2011 - Received Wisdom, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2010 - Benchmark, Terence Conran's Benchmark Showroom, Benchmark, Newbury
2010 - Eighty, Reading Museum, Reading
2010 - Fugitive Fragments, Corn Exchange, Newbury (solo)
2009 - Recovering the Lost, Slough Museum, Slough (solo)
2009 - Hackwood Arts Festival, Hackwood, Basingstoke
2008 - Affordable Art Fair 2008, Battersea, London
2008 - Encore, Gallery 10, Reading
2008 - In Passing, Arlington Arts Centre, Newbury
2007 - Early and Later Works, Newbury Museum, Newbury
2007 - ReOrsa - Space I, 51 High Street, Bracknell , Berkshire
2006 - Tom Cartmill - drawings, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre , Oxford (solo)
2006 - Group Show, Basingstoke Central Library , Basingstoke
2005 - Insight 2005, New Greenham Arts, Newbury
2004 - Open, Surface Gallery , Nottingham
2003 - Newbury College, Newbury
2003 - Obsidian Art, Stoke Mandeville
2003 - St. Clare's College, Oxford
2003 - Taurus Gallery, Oxford
2003 - Drawing Open, The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2003 - View, Artsway, Sway, Hampshire
2002 - Open Shutter, The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park, Bracknell
2001 - Exposicion Colectiva, Galleria Cobalto, Cordoba, Spain
2001 - Jelly Leg'd Chicken Art Gallery, Reading
2000 - Overlapping Views, The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury (solo)
2000 - IV Esposicion Internacional De Pintura Y Fotographia, Alcazar De San Juan, Spain
1999 - Persona, New College, Oxford (solo)
1999 - The Mill Gallery, Banbury
1998 - Un Anno in Sicilia, Galleria Candelai, Palermo, Italy (solo)
1997 - Monochrome, Phoenix Picture House, Oxford (solo)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Reading Museum, Reading
University of Chichester
Abacus Group plc, Group Headquarters, Newbury
Xafinity Consulting Ltd.
New College Chapel, Oxford
Duchess of Kent Hospice
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Future Now Anthology 2019, Aesthetica Art Prize (ISBN: 2398-6654)
International Drawing Annual 13, Manifest Drawing Centre (to be published end 2019)
ING Discerning Eye, Exhibition Catalogue 2018
International Drawing Annual 12, Manifest Drawing Centre (ISBN: 978 1 1940862 23 1)
SKETCH 2017, Open Sketchbook Drawing Prize Catalogue (ISBN 978 0 9926817 1 5)
National Open Art Prize, Exhibition Catalogue (2017)
Art Gemini Prize, Exhibition Catalogue (2017)
Drawing Selected for AxisWeb 'Category of the Week' (March 2017)
Derwent Art Prize, Exhibition Catalogue (Sep 2016)
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2013 Corn Exchange Theatre, Newbury – public lecture on my artistic practice
2010 Thames Valley University, to students on 'B.A. Advanced Art in Practice' course
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