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, 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.