Tom Palin was born in Birkenhead in 1974 and studied at Liverpool John Moores University and The University of Manchester (BA Fine Art and MA Art History and Visual Studies respectively). He completed a PhD in Painting at The Royal College of Art in 2018. His doctoral thesis was titled “The Condition of Painting: Reconsidering Medium Specificity”. He has exhibited widely and undertaken professional residencies in Munich, Dublin and Prague. Solo exhibitions include: Pride of Place: A Painter’s Perspective (Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2002), A Room with a View (The Atkinson Gallery, Southport, 2004), Between Then and Now (Dean Clough, Halifax, 2005), A Room with a View 2 (View Two Gallery, Liverpool, 2008), In Two Minds (Ashton Art Gallery, Ashton Under-Lyne, 2010), Small Works (Gallery on the Green, Settle, 2017) and Elegies in Grey, (Leeds Arts University, 2018). Awards include: The Hunting Young Artist of the Year Award (RCA, 2000), The Feiweles Trust Bursary (YSP, 2002) and The Gilchrist-Fisher Memorial Award (Rebecca Hossack, 2004). Publications include: Pride of Place: A Painter’s Perspective (YSP Press, 2002), Readings in a Rumour of the End of Art (Workshop Press, 2012), Tom Palin: Artist Statements 1993-2012 (Workshop Press, 2013), “The White Paintings of Maurice Utrillo” (Turps Banana, 2019) and “The Context of Medium Specificity: From Riegl to Greenberg” (Journal of Contemporary Painting, 2020), and “Origins and Ends: Understanding the Medium of Panting According to Heidegger’s Truth” (The Object as a Process, Transcript, 2022). Papers include: “To See or Not to See: Pareidolias and Abstract Painting” (British Abstract Painting in the Eighties (Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 2018), “Pictures, Truths and Methods: From Function to Form in Abstract Painting” (Abstract Painting Now, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 2019), “Performing Research: Painting and its Words” (Is Painting research? Manchester School of Art, Manchester, 2020, postponed). Currently, Tom teaches Painting at the Royal College of Art.
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