Thomas Jenkins is a visual artist working with photographic processes. His work explores colour and abstraction to question what is defined as a photograph in the modern day. The methods stem from interests in contemporary and historical photography, painting and sculpture. The research centres on the complex relationship between humans and the world, a subject the artist finds deeply compelling due to its role in shaping perception, behaviour, and identity in the contemporary world.

The practice researches into process, materials, light, space and matter.  Exploring the limits of photography in contemporary society that questions what can be defined as a photograph. The photographs created are not intended to be understood, instead the work looks to create images that lack representation of the physical world and in turn demand to be deciphered, seen and experienced tethering emotions and immaterial concepts to the physical. 









EDUCATION

2022 / Royal College of Art
2016 / UCA Farnham

AWARDS

2024 / Aesthetica Art Prize - Shortlist
2023 / Fresh Eyes - GUP Magazine
2023 / Residency of Creation Revela´t 
2022 / Source Graduate
2022 / Shadow Labs Mentorship Award


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 / Open Doors Photo Prize / Longlist
2024 / Air Index / Equivalentbehaviour 
2024 / Festival Revela’t 2024
2024 / Zygote / Culterim Gallery
2024 / Future Now Symposium / York Art Gallery 
2023 / Parallel / Future Focus / New Horizons 
2023 / HAUTE Photographie
2023 / NIDA Foundation / Photography Symposium 
2023 / ATELIER ALLKIMIK
2023 / Haus a Rest / Treasure Chest Gallery 
2023 / Glasgow Gallery of Photography / Colour 
2023 / The Flux Review Exhibition
2022/ Oxo Tower Bargehouse / Exhibit Here 
2022 / Copeland Gallery / After the Waiting Room
2022 / Copeland Gallery / Thomas Jenkins Colour Symphonies
2022 / Royal College of Art / True Colours 
2022 / Royal College of Art / RCA 2022 
2022 / Tate Modern / Tate Off Print
2022 / Pink Lady Photographer of the Year / Fuji Innovation Award Shortlist
2022 / Highgate Woods / Something Strange Happens Just Before the Spring
2022 / Royal College of Art / Third Floor Exhibition 2021 / Passepartout Photo Prize
2021 / Tebbs Contemporary Photography Exhibition
2021 / Royal College of Art / Work In Progress Show
2017 / Digital Film and Screen Art Show Reel 2016 / Farnham Graduate Show

FEATURES

2023 / VAINE Magazine
2023 / Fresh Eyes / GUP Magazine 2023 / Haus A Rest Zine
2023 / Scope BLN AiR Shortlist
2023 / Aeonian Magazine / Issue 08
2023 / Tied to Light Collective
2022 / Source Graduate 2022 
2022 / Folded Unfolded
2021 / No Name Collective / Collective 20 
2021 / The Waiting Room / Boxed Exhibition 
2021 / MIX Magazine / Issue 63

TALKS/LECTURES

2024 / North Herts College
2024 / Yorkshire Art Gallery / Aesthetica Art Prize 2023 / The Royal Masonic School for Girls
2022 / After the Waiting Room
2022/ Colour Symphonies in Conversation with Tom Lovelace
2022 / Colour Symphonies

EMPLOYMENT

2024 - Current / University of Creative Arts / Creative Workshop Tutor
2023 - Current / UCL Slade / Saturday Tutor 
2023 - Current / West Herts / Lecturer
2023 / Artist in Residence / Festival Revela’t
2023 - Current / West Herts College / Photography Technican
2022 - Current / Artist in Residence / Shadowlabs
2017 - 2020 / Photography Technician / Royal Masonic School for Girls

thomasjenkinsstudio@gmail.com