Artist Biography

Tom Hall (b. 1971 UK) is an artist and educator working out of The New Forest, Hampshire, where he is part of the SPUD Artists Collective. He recently moved back to the UK from Tallahassee, Florida. Hall’s work is often big and theatrical; reconstructions of imagined historic spaces or mythical giants crossing the Mexican US border. They are immediately engaging, involving you through scale and production. However, there is something disturbing underneath. Most work balances between the uncertainties of the future and a questionable historical past. More lately Hall has looked at the political concern of the migrant ‘other’ and has begun to identify as an immigrant to align himself with this group and to provoke reaction in others. Or looked closely at the frailties of adoptive fatherhood and trauma.

Hall graduated from the Wimbledon School of Art in 1994 with a degree in sculpture and subsequently completed an MA at the Royal College of Art in 1998. His work has been exhibited in national and internationally since 1994, including exhibitions at the 57th Venice Biennale, Dowd Gallery and Schweinfurth Art Centre NY, Trinity Buoy Wharf London, Les Tombées de la Nuit arts festival in Rennes, France, Crawford School of Art Cork Republic of Ireland and commissions for Bournemouth Arts By The Sea Festival, artSOUTH and first prize in 2017 Made In New York juried show.