Thomas Cameron

Born 1992, UK

Lives and works in London, UK

Thomas Cameron's contemplative oil paintings depict everyday scenes of people in the city to highlight the overlooked, understated, and fleeting moments in life. Through his work, he seeks to imbue the everyday with a sense of beauty and grandeur. Cameron’s paintings combine the tactility of oil paint, with the unintended beauty of vernacular photography to create compositions with a sense of ambiguity and open narrative, inviting the viewer to question what they see. Focusing on city life, his paintings convey the innate tension between togetherness and isolation in urban environments. Motifs and subjects such as shop windows, urban architecture and pedestrians appear as signifiers for the nature of contemporary life. Cameron graduated from the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2022. His work is held in the collections of The Government Art Collection, UK; The X Museum, Beijing, China; The University of Dundee, UK; The Tayside Medical History Museum Art Collection, UK as well as private collections in the UK, USA, China, France and Germany. He has been shortlisted for the prestigious BBA Artist Prize 2023 and presented as rising star by the Royal Society of British Artists. Cameron was included in the New Contemporaries in 2021 and 2023. He has exhibited with New Glasgow Society, Glasgow; The Sutton Gallery, Edinburgh; Canopy Collections, London; Camden Art Centre; London; The Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.