Tomas Spicer
b. 1988, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Tomas Spicer is a contemporary artist working across painting and drawing. He employs materials such as crayons, pencils, oil, cotton rag paper, and canvas. He is a current MFA candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. His ongoing research and studio practice investigate painting and drawing as modes of communication, exploring their 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 colour, instinctive mark-making, complex surface dynamics, and his vibrant oil paintings, which depict frantic, physical abstractions often emerging through cycles of application, erasure, and reconfiguration. Spicer has studied at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London; the Institute of Education, University College London. His work has been exhibited in Porto (PT), Miami (USA), Kerala (IN), and London (UK). Spicer has contributed to various educational programmes as a visiting artist and tutor.
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, Prologue, 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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