Artist Biography

Tom Hall (b. 1971 UK) is an artist and curator working out of The New Forest, Hampshire. He spent 6 years working in America, firstly in upstate New York and then in Tallahassee, Florida. Hall’s work is often big and theatrical; reconstructions of imagined historic spaces or mythical giants crossing the Mexican US border and explorations of adopted fatherhood are all searches for empathy with a complex ‘other’. The works 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 closely at the frailties of adoptive fatherhood and trauma and the influence of his years in America continue to fascinate.

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 and artSOUTH and winning first prize in Made In New York juried show and the Jury prize in Awe and Wonder 2023 at the OXO building, London.