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Tom Jeffreys

Tom Jeffreys is a writer based in Edinburgh. He is the author of two books: The White Birch: A Russian Reflection (Little, Brown, 2021) and Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on foot (Influx Press, 2017).

At Camden Art Centre, the artist’s first solo UK institutional show is imbued with latent dread

BY Tom Jeffreys | 09 FEB 23

Tom Jeffreys interviews the exhibition’s co-curator, Ksenia Malykh, about the significance of staging an exhibition in wartime, and the message it sends to Ukrainians and the world

BY Tom Jeffreys AND Ksenia Malykh | 10 AUG 22

This year's edition, ‘Persons, Persone, Personen’, celebrates ecologically minded contemporary art that is joyful and sensual

BY Tom Jeffreys | 06 JUL 22

As the COP26 conference approaches, how individual artists and artist institutions are responding to the demands of the climate crisis

BY Tom Jeffreys | 01 OCT 21

At Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, the artist’s retrospective approaches materials in a child-like manner with little regard for the objects’ origins or histories

BY Tom Jeffreys | 28 JUL 21

The artist’s new show at Dundee Contemporary Arts explores the intense physicality of collective sorrow through the body as landscape

BY Tom Jeffreys | 07 JUN 21

From Cample Line in rural Scotland to collective Myvillages, artists are reconsidering their relationship to ‘the rural’

BY Tom Jeffreys | 13 NOV 19

Television has long celebrated the before-and-after reveal of a freshly cleaned masterpiece – now many museums are showcasing the hidden art too

BY Tom Jeffreys | 08 NOV 19

The influence of Isaac Levitan’s 1897 painting Spring, High Water on 20th-century film

BY Tom Jeffreys | 25 SEP 19

Considering our scripted future at Helsinki Contemporary 

BY Tom Jeffreys | 10 AUG 19

‘It’s all there: charm, humour, ethics, friendship’

BY Tom Jeffreys | 24 JAN 19

Why is the figure of the witch and magical practice making a 21st-century comeback in the arts?

BY Tom Jeffreys | 26 NOV 18

For 112 days Sara Morawetz retraced the 2,000 kilometre journey of two 18th century astronomers, tasked with defining the length of a metre

BY Tom Jeffreys | 25 OCT 18

Featuring a proposal for a circular motorway around a mountain peak, the ‘weird and absurd’ work of the Russia-based artist

BY Tom Jeffreys | 17 OCT 18

Jostling with its loud festival neighbours, the UK’s best attended annual visual art festival conducts a polyphonic debate with art of the past

BY Tom Jeffreys | 02 AUG 18

As the most expensive railway on earth is built, is art being used as a mouthpiece for power?

BY Tom Jeffreys | 15 JUN 18

Four miles west of the city, Jupiter Artland marks its 10th anniversary with a new commission by Phyllida Barlow

BY Tom Jeffreys | 02 JUN 18

At this year’s GI festival, directed by Richard Parry, a future-focused assemblage of what it means to be human

BY Tom Jeffreys | 01 MAY 18

A new report suggests that women, people from working-class backgrounds and BAME workers all face significant exclusion

BY Tom Jeffreys | 16 APR 18

With global issues cutting across disciplines, a number of projects are showing where the mixing of art and science can prove productive

BY Tom Jeffreys | 21 FEB 18