Tomas Spicer
b. 1988, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Tomas Spicer is a contemporary artist working across painting, drawing, and installation; he employs materials such as crayons, pencils, oil, cotton rag paper, canvas, and building materials. He is a current MFA candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, his ongoing research and studio practice investigate art’s transformative potential—its ability to bridge personal histories with broader societal and philosophical concerns, from the fluidity of time to the instability of contemporary experience. He is best known for bold shifts in color, instinctive mark-making, complex surface dynamics, and his vibrant oil paintings depicting frantic, physical, abstractions often emerging through cycles of application, erasure, and reconfiguration. The British artist is occupied with the interplay between material presence and temporal flux, exploring shifting atmospheres of time, perception, and painterly process as a means of understanding lived experience in a rapidly changing world. By doing so, Spicer tackles the human condition—exploring art as a language of embodied thought—an intuitive, haptic response to the world—an alternative language—a space for meaning-making beyond words. Spicer has studied at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK; the Institute of Education, University College London, UK; was the co-director of LEM Gallery London; and has contributed to various educational programs as a visiting artist and guest lecturer.
Education
2021-2025, MFA, Goldsmiths, UOL, London, UK
2019-2020, PGCE, Institute of Education, UCL, London, UK
2010-2014, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL, London, UK
Selected exhibitions
2025, Language Construct, MFA Studios Asquith Gibbs Building, London, UK
2024, Freedom Verses, House Work, London, UK
2024, Low Level Readers, MFA Studios Asquith Gibbs Building, London, UK
2024, Propositions, MFA Studios Asquith Gibbs Building, London, UK
2024, O.S.D 1, MFA Studios Asquith Gibbs Building, London, UK
2023, Proloug, Des Bains, London, UK
2022, Career Break (Parental Leave)
2020, Walking Lines, Instituto, Porto, PT
Collections
Tomas Spicer features in private collections in England, Portugal, France, Spain, America, and India.
Selected publication
Tomas Spicer, Freedom Verses (press release). London: House Work Presents, 2024.
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