Tom Fairlamb (b. 1993) graduated with Masters in Contemporary Art Practice from the Royal College of Art in London, 2024, and with a first class honours in Fine Art from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, 2023.  Fairlamb’s work has been exhibited across the UK and US while receiving multiple awards, such as: being selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2024); The Royal Scottish Academy Stuart Prize (2024); The Alastair Smart Memorial Prize (2023); The Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries (2023); Visual Arts Scotland Graduate Showcase Award (2023); New Blood Art Emerging Artist Art Prize (2023); The Leith School of Art Prize for Outstanding Work in Fine Art (2020).

 

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Fairlamb makes durational, moving sculptures that blur into performance, video, sound, and drawing. He approaches making with a playful curiosity to serious questions about the world we are a part of. These questions often remain unanswered, with humorous yet tragic outcomes. The works are left open allowing for different readings depending on the context and the viewer’s own psychological, philosophical, and political understandings. Suggestive of narratives without being didactic, the works act as warnings, lessons, morality tales and parables.

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Fairlamb is interested in questioning the impact of the categorisations and boundaries we create between human and non-human worlds. By observing the world's cycles and processes, he simulates interactions between nature and technology. His work shows the systems and connections that are often hidden and invisible to us.