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Tom Ireland

Blackpool

My practice is centred around broad notions of space, distance and the things which fill it. I am interested in what these things are, both physically and ideologically, and how they operate within the world and shape both our individual and collective understanding.

 

Born 1984 / lives and works in Blackpool, England 
www.tomirelandhq.org.uk

 

2017

Deptford X Platform 2017 (SOLO) – FORTCOMING; Actuality Picture / The Magic Lantern, TitleDateDuration, Manchester, UK (SOLO) – FORTHCOMING; THE HEAVENS / Arebyte LASER, London, UK (SOLO)

2016

The Manchester Contemporary 2016 / with Object / A Gallery, Manchester, UK; MEANS / UNIT Projects, Blackpool, UK (GROUP); The Kármán Line / Object/A, Manchester, UK (w/ Michael Mulvihill and Matthew Denniss) (GROUP)

2015

Modern History Vol.2 (Curated by Lynda Morris) / The Atkinson, Southport, UK (GROUP); The Manchester Contemporary 2015 / with Object / A Gallery, Manchester, UK; Destroy Blackpool / Supercollider at Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK (GROUP)*; Finite Project Altered When Open / David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, UK (GROUP)

2014

They Used To Call It The Moon / Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (GROUP); The Manchester Contemporary 2014 / with Untitled Gallery, Manchester, UK (ART FAIR); TOMTOM / Model, Liverpool, UK (GROUP); They Used To Call It The Moon / Baltic 39, Newcastle, UK (GROUP); An Ocean Of Storms / Untitled Gallery, Manchester, UK (GROUP)

2013

But it could be a Levi’s advert / Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (as part of Flatfile w/Mathew Parkin) ; The Manchester Contemporary 2013 / with Untitled Gallery, Manchester, UK (ART FAIR); Strabismus: Exhibition as Cinema / The Lombard Method, Birmingham and Mexico Project Space, Leeds (Both UK); The Golden Coast / Untitled Gallery, Manchester, UK (SOLO); Easy Does it / David Dale Gallery, Glasgow; Aid & Abet, Cambridge; Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects, Blackpool; all UK (GROUP / touring exhibition curated by Kevin Hunt)

2012

That Ever Increasing Distance / Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects, Blackpool, UK (GROUP)*; Notes on Westward Expansion / Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK (SOLO); No Now! / Space Station 65, London, UK (GROUP)

2011

I’ll Be Your Mirror / Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects, Blackpool, UK (GROUP / curated by Fiona Shaw); Offers / as part of Blackpool Culture Shops programme, Blackpool, UK (SOLO); Recent Findings / (as part of) The Burlington Fine Arts Club / Manchester, UK (GROUP); Everyday we are apart, I miss you more than ever / South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford, UK (SOLO); Painting Show / Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects, Blackpool, UK (GROUP)*; BAMBAMBAM / Wolstenholme Creative Space, Liverpool, UK (GROUP)

2010

Legacy 1 / L.I.U. Gallery, London, UK (GROUP / curated by Perce Jerrom and Sophie Rees); Assembly / Rogue Artist Studios and Project Space, Manchester, UK (GROUP / curated by Lee Machell); From this filthy sewer pure gold flows / Rogue Artist Studios and Project Space, Manchester, UK (GROUP)*

2009

The Sum Total of Endeavours to Date (the dreams we had as children fade away) / Badger Badger Gallery, Carlisle, UK (SOLO); Supercollider Embassy / Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK (GROUP)*; From this filthy sewer pure gold flows / Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects, Blackpool, UK (GROUP)*; Holding on; forever / Vault Gallery, Lancaster, UK (w/ Fiona Shaw)

2008

Collide Now! Young Supercollider / Supercollider Contemporary Art Projects, Blackpool, UK (GROUP)*; The Sum Total of Endeavours to Date / Bank Gallery, Carlisle, UK (SOLO)

2007

Studio Project #9 / Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK (RESIDENCY / SOLO); The Triumph of the Squares / Bank Gallery, Carlisle, UK (SOLO)

*curatorial also

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