BORN 1979, London UK
EDUCATION
MFA, Sculpture - Slade School of Fine Art, 2007
BA Fine Art, Sculpture, 1st - Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2005
Btec. Foundation Fine Art - Chelsea College of Art and Design, 2002
BA History of Art and Design, 2:1 - Southampton University, 2000
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
FORTHCOMING
2012
Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK (Solo Exhibition)
ZAP Launch Exhibition: Collectible, ZeitgeistArtsProjects, London
Elsewhere Collective, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA (Artist Residency)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Aedas Presents: Tom Butler, Aedas Architects, Birmingham, UK
The Grotesques, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
2010
Hair Creatures, Window Installation, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
“I don’t know when I’ll be home…” Exeter Phoenix, Devon
2009
Co_respondence, Madame Lillies, London
Hair Bugs Bones, The Barrel House, Totnes, Devon.
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
artWorks Open 2011, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London
New Now Next, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
Photomedia, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London (Winner)
Extra-Ordinary: Marion Michell, Tom Butler and Alyson Helyer, Core Gallery, London
Postcards From Paris - Paris Correspondence School, Minnie Weisz Studio, curated by Charlie Levine London
Postcards From Paris - Paris Correspondence School, Trove Gallery, curated by Charlie Levine Birmingham, UK
2010
Small Works: Gallery Artists, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME, USA
ArtSway Open 2010, Hampshire, UK
Deptford X Core Gallery Open, Core Gallery, London, (one of three Prize Winners)
I Am Solitary I Am An Army, with Beers Lambert, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Ludlow Summer Exhibition 2010, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
artWorks Open 2010, Barbican Arts Group Trust, Blackhorse Lane Studios, London
Citizen, tactileBOSCH Gallery and Studios, Cardiff, Wales
Worcester Open 2010, Worcester Art Gallery and Museum, Worcester, UK (Selected Artist)
What Does Kiwi Mean to You? RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Things Have Changed, Birdwood House Gallery Totnes, Devon, UK
Tom Butler and Kate Russo, The Flavel Arts Centre, Dartmouth, Devon, UK
2009
10 Artists, The Old School House, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
CUBE09, Centre for the Urban Built Environment, Manchester,UK
RWA Open 2009, Royal West Of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Salisbury Open 2009, Salisbury Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
Bright Newcomers, Bowie Gallery, Totnes, Devon, UK
Drawn In, Open Drawing Competition, Sidcot Arts Centre, Somerset, UK
Ludlow Summer Exhibition 2009, Ludlow, Shropshire, UK
2008
The Waiting Room, Crouch End Train Station, London
Salon 08, Vine Space, London
workFORCE, John Jones Project Space. London
Alpha, Lewisham Art House, London
2007
MFA Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London
Subrealism, Aftermodern, San Francisco USA
2006
Scene One, In the Offing, Sassoon Gallery, London
Sterling, New London Artists, Factory Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005
BA Exhibition, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2004
Art Car-boot Fair, Truman Brewery, London
2003
No Concrete Basement, London
‘Circus’; Peter Blake Sculpture, London Institute Gallery, London
Happy Days, La Caserne, Pontoise, France
2002
Things Which May Appear, Empire Studios, London
COLLECTIONS
2011
University of Maine, Museum of Art.
Collection of Jon Edwards, ME USA
Collection of Bruce Brown, ME USA
PUBLICATIONS AND CATALOGUES
2011
Photomedia, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK, pdf catalogue available at www.charlieduttongallery.com
Extra-Ordinary, Review by Chris Osburn, WHITEHOT Magazine: whitehotmagazine.com/articles/may-2011-extraordinary-core-gallery/2281
Extra-Ordinary: Interview with Tom Butler, Alyson Heyler and Marion Michell by Chantelle Purcell coregalleryinterviews.blogspot.com/
Sonant Ensemble/ The Gavin Bryars Ensemble/Testbed 1, Poster Design
Featured Artist: Tom Butler, by Brenton Hamilton, Obscura Press: www.obscuraweb.org/artists/featured-artist-tom-butler
Community School & CMCA Team Up, Village Soup
2010
Tom Butler And The Case of the Misplaced Hair: llamarinth.wordpress.com
Marmite Painting Prize 2010, Exhibition Catalogue
I Am Solitary I Am An Army, Exhibition Catalogue
Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue
The Lost Souls of Soho, Poster Design, Intervention Gallery, London
Worcester Open 2010, Exhibition Catalogue
Love Bites (May) Poster Design, Calder Bookshop, London
ZeroStretch March Artist, www.zerostretch.org.
2009
Love Bites (November) Poster and Set Design, Calder Bookshop, London
Ludlow Summer Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue
Drift Records, Guest Artist and Logo Design
Soanyway, Online Magazine, www.soanyway.org.uk/thisandthat.htm
Love Bites, (May), Poster Design, Calder Bookshop, London.
2008
I Wish You Could See What I’ve Seen, Impulsive Random Press 9, London
Alpha, Booklet to accompany exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse
2007
Invisibility Machine, Impulsive Random Press 4, London
2006
Neverthere, Booklet to accompany Stirling, New London Artists, Berlin
Stirling, New London Artists, Exhibition Catalogue
Scene One, In the Offing, Exhibition Catalogue
2005
Teatime on the Moon’ Front Cover, Peppercorn Poets, London
2004
Lunch at Shakespeare’s Local’, Front Cover, Peppercorn Poets, London