"Your fundraising programme and the launch of the centre has come at a good time. I have been developing some new work for 2023, exploring photography as a shelter and the ways in which one uses photography to hide, to meet or for sanctuary. Here, the willow tree is used as a metaphor for the photograph. It was taken using my bronica 6x6, at dusk, using an 8 second exposure time. I am under the tree. You can just make out my legs, to the left of centre."

Tom Lovelace, November 2022

Tom Lovelace is a London based artist, working across photography, performance and sculpture. Lovelace presents fluid environments and exhibition encounters, positioning the body at the centre of abstract languages and legacies. Collaboration and phenomenology are central to his practice. Underpinning themes of research encompass the collaborative histories of photography, theatre and the role of Minimalism within contemporary culture. As a Lecturer Lovelace works at the Royal College of Art, University for the Creative Arts and Glasgow School of Art.

Recent exhibitions and displays include Known and Strange, Victoria and Albert Museum (London 2021-2022) / Repetition Room, Atletika Gallery (Vilnius 2022) / Eclipse, Bodø Biennale, NŌUA (Norway 2022) / Bathers, The National Gallery (London 2022) & Sid Motion Gallery (London 2021) / A Japanese Dream, Van Gogh House London (2022) & The Eye Sees (Arles 2022) / The State of Things, Landskrona Foto (Sweden 2022 & 2020) / The Dancer and the Shadow, Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris 2020) / On Photographic Beings, The National Museum of Art (Riga, Latvia 2020) / The Truth in Disguise, GESTE (Paris 2019) / Present Tense, Materia Gallery (Rome 2019) / Interval, Flowers Gallery (London 2019) / Dazzle Site, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017-2019) / Postcards from Prison, Sotheby’s (London 2018) / On Board, Crispr (Bogota 2017) / On the heights, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017) / Paris Photo, Grand Palais (Paris 2016) / Tipping Point, Alma Zevi Gallery (Venice 2016) / Groundwork, The New Art Centre (Salisbury 2015) / Mirage Valley, Lendi Projects (Switzerland 2015) / To Camera, Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast 2015) / This Way Up, Flowers Gallery (London 2015) / Project 05, Contemporary Art Society (London 2014) / Sweep, Victoria and Albert Museum (London 2014) / In Preparation for Arles, Les Rencontres d'Arles (France 2013) / Art Licks, ICA (London 2012), Work Starts Here, Son Gallery (London 2012) / Uncommon Ground, Flowers Gallery (London 2012) / Vessel, Karst, British Art Show 7 (Plymouth 2011).

Residencies include London South Bank University (2019-2020), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017), Allegra Projects, Switzerland (2017), Lendi Projects, Switzerland (2015), European Capital of Culture, Aarhus, Denmark (2013) and the Anna Mahler International Foundation, Italy (2012).

Lovelace’s practice has been featured and reviewed in The Art Newspaper, Frieze Magazine, Vogue Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Le Monde diplomatique, 1000 Words Magazine, AnOther Magazine, Time Out London, Foam, The Financial Times, Wallpaper Magazine, Philosophy of Photography, Generazione Critica, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph, The Royal Photographic Society, Aesthetica Magazine, American Suburb X, Art Licks, The Learned Pig, Of The Afternoon, Source Photographic Review, Photoworks, Self Publish Be Happy, British Journal of Photography, a-n and The Rebel Magazine. Lovelace has previously been nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, Prix Pictet Award and the Infinity Award (International Center of Photography, New York). His books, Work Starts Here (2013), This way up (2016) and Bathers (2021) are held in the Tate Artist's Book Collection. Curatorial projects include Performing Dawns (2021), With Monochrome Eyes (2020), Rehearsing the Real (2019), Concealer (2018) and At Home She’s a Tourist (2017).

Lovelace studied Photography at the Arts University Bournemouth, receiving BA First Class Honours before studying at Goldsmiths College, University of London. As a lecturer Lovelace has delivered talks and workshops at the Royal Academy of the Arts (London), Tate Modern, The Photographers’ Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, Somerset House (London), The Victoria and Albert Museum, London Art Fair, World Photography Organisation, Grain Projects, Golden Thread Gallery (Belfast), London College of Communication, University of Wales, Southampton Solent University, Bristol University, London South Bank University, Arts University Bournemouth, Falmouth University, Derby University, University of Central Lancashire, Portsmouth University, Sheffield Hallam University, UCA Canterbury, UCA Farnham, UCA Rochester, Brighton University, Camberwell College of Arts, University of Westminster and Manchester School of Art.