I am an artist and writer based in Northumberland.
My work explores relationships between drawing, writing, body and place. I’m particularly interested in acts of focused observation; in how we record and report periods of looking within the increasingly mediated culture of the attention economy. I use a variety of materials and methods from ink drawing to digital media, often navigating uncertain relationships between drawing and text.
Recent exhibitions include Sonikebana, commissioned by Edinburgh College of Art for Edinburgh Art Festival; Imprints: Art Edits Modernism at Shandy Hall, Yorkshire; and I sat till I could see no longer at Fife Contemporary Arts, St Andrews. My writing has appeared in Happy Hypocrite, MAP and Rake’s Progress.
Understorey, my first book, was published by Duckworth Books in June 2024, and was featured or reviewed in The Observer, The Scotsman and the Daily Mail.
For writing, I am represented by Seren Adams at Lexington Literary.
Read a recent interview with Tom Jeffreys, here.
Education
2007–2008
Master of Fine Art (Drawing), University of the Arts London: Wimbledon
1998–2003
MA Fine Art, University of Edinburgh (1st class)
Portrait by Foldyard