Tom White

Tom White’s work extends well past portraiture. While his images usually consist of single or a small group of individuals, often portrayed frontally, engagement with his subjects alone can belie White’s tantalising aptitude for atmosphere. Indeed...

Tom White’s work extends well past portraiture. While his images usually consist of single or a small group of individuals, often portrayed frontally, engagement with his subjects alone can belie White’s tantalising aptitude for atmosphere. Indeed, the use of time in the show’s title signals this: his figures fall subject to much greater forces than the artist’s brush, instead existing within a constellation of time and space. White places significant importance on conjuring sensations within his paintings; the use of scale, composition and palette interact to supersede purely mimetic depictions of people, placing the focus instead on a deeply intimate ephemerality to the moment being portrayed.