Tom Leighton Photography Blog

My work will be part of Digital Darkroom Slideshow Night at The Annenberg Space for Photography

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:05:32 +0100

Digital Darkroom Slideshow Night on Thursday, May 3, 2012 from 6:30-8:00pm.

My work is included in the forthcoming slideshow event at The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, to coincide with their current exhibit Digital Darkroom. To attend the event please register here

The Annenberg Space for Photography
Century Park
2000 Avenue of the Stars, #10

Los Angeles, CA 90067
Tel: 213.403.3000

www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org

New work Hollywood Land on display at the London Art Fair

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:56:00 +0000

ARK

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:55:00 +0000

My work has been featured in an article for an issue of ARK, a cultural Italian journal published in Bergamo, Italy.

Read the full article here

Shibuya Umbrellas 4 in BFAMI Charity Auction Press...

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:30:00 +0000

Shibuya Umbrellas 4 in BFAMI Charity Auction

Press Release:

BFAMI Gala Dinner and Charity Auction November 16^th 2011

This year the British Friends of the Museums of Israel’s (BFAMI) Gala Dinner and art auction will be held at Phillips de Pury on 16^th of November. The Gala is held to support to educational programmes in the museums in Israel. Our special Guest of Honour is the American artist Jenny Holzer. The Gala is sponsored by Phillips de Pury.

Viewing times for the auction works of art will be at:

Fri 11^th Nov 10-6 Phillips de Pury

Sat 12^th Nov 12-6 Howick Place

Sun 13^th Nov 12-6 Victoria

Mon 14^th Nov 10-6 London SW1B 1BB

Tue 15^th Nov 10-6

There are more than 65 artists who have generously donated their works. Major artists contributing to the auction include Francis Alÿs, Louise Bourgeois, Michal Rovner, Jenny Holzer, Linder, William Eggleston, William Kentridge, Rebecca Warren, Tal R and Keith Tyson.

The catalogue can be viewed online at www.bfami.org

BFAMI is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raise funds to support educational programmes run by the art museums of Israel. These programmes share the rich artistic culture and history of Israel alongside prominent international contemporary art, with future generations across all strata of society.

In recent years we have focused our fund-raising endeavours to support educational programmes targeted at more vulnerable social groups such as children from deprived backgrounds, terminally ill children in hospitals and new immigrants suffering from negative social stigma to name a few. Together with these we are proud to continue our support of programmes reaching the gifted and talented, as well as Israeli soldiers. In addition, each year we allocate funds towards acquisition of artwork for the Israel Museum or the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Founded in 1947, BFAMI originally obtained funds solely for the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and later for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem when it was founded in 1965. We have since expanded our support to educational programmes run by additional contemporary art museums in Israel such as the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Haifa Museum of Art, Janco Dada Museum, Nachum Gutman Museum of Art and the Museums of Bat Yam (MoBY).

Further information and images please contact cathywills@gmail.com (Curator)

Michelle Hyman (Executive Director)

BFAMI

info@bfami.org

UCLH Auction Catalogue

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:41:00 +0100

This Thursday, the 30th June, I have my image ‘Balloons’ being auctioned in aid of the new UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre. The auction takes place at 7pm at the Her House Gallery on Drydale Street, N1, London. The auction is a continuation of the hoarding project co-curated by Guy Noble and Adam Bridgland. There are sixteen specially commissioned works in the auction. All works can be seen and advanced bids can be taken via the special print auction page.

View the auction catalogue below (click for fullscreen)

'Geneva' included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Thu, 26 May 2011 15:30:46 +0100

Summer Exhibition 2011

7 June—15 August 2011

RA Website

About this year’s exhibition:

Royal Academicians Christopher Le Brun and Michael Craig-Martin will play significant roles in developing the main characteristics of this year’s exhibition, whilst Piers Gough and Alan Stanton will shape the architecture room.

This year the Selection Committee has agreed that there will be no theme. They have instead decided that Gallery 3 (the largest in the Academy and traditionally used for the display of work by Royal Academicians and Honorary RAs) will be hung in the style of a ‘salon hang’.

This will be a unique presentation of recent and new work of all sizes by both artists from open submission and from the Academicians. The aim is to exploit the grandeur of the Academy’s principal room with a memorably dense and rich visual experience.

Taking advantage of all available hanging space, paintings will be hung from the dado rail to the picture rail. The ambition of the Committee is that by the careful arrangement of the hang, each work will be properly seen and ‘read’ in its space, and that the cumulative effect - which will have echoes of Summer Exhibitions of past years - will be to infuse the gallery with life and energy, providing a central focus to the exhibition and contrasting dramatically with other more sparsely-hung rooms.

This year the Architecture Room will be located in Gallery VI and the Architecture Members hanging this gallery, Piers Gough RA and Alan Stanton RA, are keen to receive modestly sized works in the usual media – models, drawings and high quality photographs.

As in previous years, a major work of sculpture will be presented as part of the Summer Exhibition in the Annenberg Courtyard.

The Piazza featured in The Saturday Times: The Style Pages

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:15:00 +0100

Click on fullscreen to read the article

JAMM - Kuwait Charity Auction

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 14:58:12 +0000

Hoover Dam will be included in the JAMM - Art & Beyond Charity Auction in Kuwait:

February 8th & 9th 2011
Kuwait Auction

JAMM will host its 2nd auction in Kuwait on the 9th of February 2011, featuring 90 works by emerging and established Arab, Iranian and International artists. The auction will take place at 6pm at The Avenues, Kuwait.

Ahead of the auction a public exhibition of the artworks will take place on the 8th of February 2011 from 5pm to 7pm at The Avenues, Kuwait.

The auction will be conducted by renowned auctioneer, Aileen Agopian.

10% of the proceeds from the auction sale will benefit a Kuwait based non-profit organization, KAACH, the Kuwait Association for the Care of Children in Hospital.

To download the auction catalogue please Click Here.

If you require further information please contact llimerick@jamm-art.com or lalsabah@jamm-art.com.

Appropriation of Space - Exhibition Images

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:20:00 +0100

Appropriation of Space - Press

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:08:00 +0100

UCLH Arts Cancer Centre Hoarding Project 2010 Images

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 10:04:00 +0100

UCLH Arts Cancer Centre Hoarding Project 2010

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:17:00 +0100

‘Balloons’

I have been commissioned along with 15 other artists to create an image for the UCLH Arts Cancer Centre Hoarding Project 2010. The works are all interpretations of the theme ‘Wellness’. All 16 works will be printed on to large scale hoardings that will be displayed around the building site of the new International Cancer Centre on Huntley Street, London, W1. The work is to be installed and unveiled in September 2010.

Solo Exhibition: APPROPRIATION OF SPACE

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:08:00 +0100

Solo exhibition presented by The Cynthia Corbett Gallery

TOM LEIGHTON: APPROPRIATION OF SPACE

Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
13 – 25 September 2010.
Private View 14th September

Show tours to Berlin:

Foundation Starke
Koenigsallee 30/32,
14193 Berlin-Grunewald

Private View: 1st October, 19h – 21h
Artist and curator talk: 8th October 19h – 20h
Exhibition runs 2 October – 14 November 2010

The exhibition is part of the European Month of Photography,

which runs 15 October – 28 November 2010

CULTURAL DETRITUS

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:44:00 +0000

CULTURAL DETRITUS

KOUNOSUKE KAWAKAMI,
KENTARO KOBUKE, TOM LEIGHTON

26 March – 1 May 2010
Private View Thursday 25 March 6-8 pm
Pippy Houldsworth, 50 Pall Mall Deposit
124-128 Barlby Road, London W10 6BL

New works by London-based artists Kounosuke Kawakami, Kentaro Kobuke, and Tom Leighton.Ostensibly at odds with each other - both technically and conceptually - these artists nonetheless succeed in an unlikely union. Each depicts subjects from our real world, whilst simultaneously remaining bound up with the world of the unknown. Utilising the realms of fantasy, abstraction and imagination, these artists convey a deeply realistic viewpoint, revealing something profound about our own situations.

Originals 10

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Fair Aerial will be on display as part of:

ORIGINALS 10

The Contemporary Printmaking Show
Thu 25 March - Sat 3 April 2010, 10am - 5pm

MALL GALLERIES
The Mall (near Trafalgar Square)
London, SW1

www.mallgalleries.org.uk

Work Selected for Man Photography Prize

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:38:00 +0000

Shibuya Umbrellas 2&3 have been selected for the Man Photography Prize.

An exhibition of all shortlisted entries will be on show at the RCA from the 17th – 20th November

Exhibition in Japan

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

I will be exhibiting as part of:

Contiguous Zone “Virtual Records” at the YOD Gallery in Osaka.

6 October – 24 October, 2009.

Etching in Royal West of England Academy Open Print Exhibition

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Ikebukuro 2 etching has been selected for the Royal West of England Academy Open Print Exhibition in Bristol.

The show runs until the 19th of September

www.rwa.org.uk

RA Summer Exhibition

Fri, 29 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Berlin Cathedral has been hung in this years Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

The exhibition runs from the 8th June – 16th August

click to go to the exhibition website

Barock Plastik

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:15:00 +0000

I-MYU Projects presents BAROCK PLASTIK an explosive group show of ten artists collectively engaged in sweeping explorations of the hyper real. Locating opposing attitudes of aspiration and displacement the artists navigate both the repressed urban and the burgeoning placidness of the remote and removed outdoors.

Elaborate contortions of folkloric landscape and outlandish universes court a collective consciousness of the elsewhere within the here-and-now. BAROCK PLASTIK draws on the materialistic and visual excess of the Baroque while pointing resolutely to a contemporary bridging point of new Americana, caught between unapologetic nostalgic resolve and fresh Presidential sway.

Tereza Buskova’s photographs configure ritualistic narrative where androgynistic sexuality is neutralised by ostentatious dress and Geisha-white. Toshiaka Hicosaka presents erased and reduced landscapes, enforcing the selective and arbitrary nature of decision-making, the works strive for an unobtainable core of reason. Yutaka Inagawa’s paintings contrast ornamental elements of tree and vegetation against flat painted grounds while Kounosuke Kawakami locates panoptical architectural elements in dislocated and impenetrable landscapes. Kengo Kito’s presents an excessively large helium balloon, a self-sustained hovering entity, while Kentaro Kobuke ’s intimate works describe a patchwork of normality that sit against the fantastical urban landscapes of Tom Leighton’s mirrored and folded impossible realities. Further informing a site of theatrical performance Stine Ljunedalh’s photographs disclose a latent shadow of self, transformation and disguise while Akiko Takizawa’s empty interiors preside over the lost lives, objects and histories withheld within their rich tonal contrast.

For further information please call: 0207 033 4480, or email imyuprojects@gmail.com

Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 10-6pm

I-MYU Projects
23 Charlotte Road London EC2A 3PB