About
Thomas Compton (b.1996. UK) is an artist, printmaker and illustrator. His practice is the combination of both digital and analogue methods.
His approach to image-making queries sets of chosen subjects through research and drafting periods, positioning the subject within an aesthetic framework. This process acts as a vehicle to create conscientious responses to the subject. Influences are the legacy and future of folk customs, myth and legend, the ethos of the Arts & Crafts movement, industry, materiality and the philosophies/histories of printing processes, among others.
He is the author of ‘The De Chirico Horse’; a semi-fictional narrative based upon a friendship the artist’s great-grandfather had with the artist Giorgio de Chirico.
Exhibitions/Print Fairs
2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Works, London, UK
2023 Longest Night Fijuk Marknad, Gothenburg, SE
2022 World Illustration Awards, Somerset House, London, UK
2020 All Stars Exhibit PDP Conference, Novi Sad, SRB
2019 World Illustration Awards, Somerset House, London, UK
2019 Shake, Bristol, UK
Awards
2023 Collector Highlight at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
2022 Longlisted Artist at the World Illustration Awards
2021 Honourable Mention at 3x3 Magazine Awards
2019 Shortlisted Artist at the World Illustration Awards
Residencies
2023 Harvey Lloyd Screens, Wadhurst, UK
2020-23 Ocean Studios, Plymouth, UK
2019-20 Ochre Print Studio, Guildford, UK
Collaborations & Commissions
2023 Penguin Random House. ‘War and Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy
2022 Stay Creative Co. AW22. ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
2022 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
2021 Muchelney Pottery
2020 Stay Creative Co. SS20. ‘The Wicker Man’
Press / Publications
2023 Pressing Matters: Issue 21 ‘Nowt Stranger than Folk’
2022 Stay Creative Co.: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’