Tom Banks

Lives and works in St Leonards on Sea, UK

Education

  • 1996 Kingston University - BA (Hons) Kingston University

  • 1993 Hastings College of Arts & Technology, Hastings

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2022 Nightwonders - The Lido Stores, Margate

  • 2020 Show Home - Solaris, St Leonards on Sea

  • 2018 Through Windows - blackShed Gallery, Robertsbridge

  • 2017 Cul-de-Sac - Elysium Gallery, Swansea

  • 2016 Towner Cafe Project - Towner Gallery, Eastbourne

  • 2008 Bough - Todds Gallery, Hastings

Group Exhibtions

  • 2023 Winter Show - Rogue Gallery, St Leonards on Sea

  • 2023 Uncertain Edges Electro Studios, St Leonards on Sea

  • 2023 5ive - St Andrews Mews, Hastings

  • 2022 That Island Feeling - Terrace Gallery, Walthamstow London

  • 2021 Groundwork - APT, Deptford London

  • 2021 Tree of Life - Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea

  • 2021 Without Borders - Elysium Gallery, Swansea. Touring to Japan, Norway, USA, Venice, Canada, & back to Wales

  • 2019 by the way - Lewisham Art House, Lewisham London

  • 2018 Strange Love - Bankley Gallery, Manchester

  • 2016 Landskips - Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea

  • 2015 Group Show - Control Tower, Kings Hill Kent. Curated by June Frickleton

  • 2015 Sotto Voce - St Mary in the Castle, Hastings

  • 2015 Things That Are There - Pie Factory, Margate

  • 2015 Autocatalytic Future Games - No Format Gallery, London. Curated by PlayPaint

  • 2014 Errors Of The Divine - Electro Studios, St Leonards On Sea, Coastal Currents

  • 2014 Food Glorious Food - The Cambria, London

  • 2013 London Calling - NSH Arts, London

  • 2013 Pneu - Electro Studios, St Leonards On Sea

  • 2013 Navigate - De La Warr Pavilion Pop-Up, Bexhill

  • 2012 Seeing In The Dark - Fletcher Centre, Rye

  • 2012 ALAS Autumn Exhibition - Matt Roberts Arts, London

  • 2012 4 - Untitled BCN, Barcelona

  • 2012 London: Your Call - Cultivate Vyner St, London

  • 2012 Still Here - Untitled BCN, Barcelona

  • 2011 3x3 - Cultivate Vyner St, London

  • 2011 Black - Cultivate Vyner St, London

  • 2011 Something Blue - Cultivate Vyner St, London

  • 2011 ESCAF - Rye Creative Centre, Rye

  • 2009 Wood - Nomad, Hastings

  • 2008 RX2000 - Todds Gallery, Hastings

Open Calls 

  • 2023 Beep Wales International Painting Prize - Elysium Gallery, Swansea

  • 2021 The Lido Open - The Lido Stores, Margate

  • 2020 Hastings Open 2020 - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery

  • 2018 Sussex Open - Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (selectors Tom Hammick Jenny Lund & Brian Cass)

  • 2018 Beep Wales International Painting Prize - Elysium offsite at Swansea College of Art, Swansea (selectors Sue Williams & Andre Stitt)

  • 2018 This Years Model! '18 '...Or The Body Rule The Mind' - Studio 1.1, London

  • 2016 Beep Wales International Painting Prize - Elysium Gallery, Swansea; Undegun, Wrexham; Arcade, Cardiff (Selectors Jonathan Watkins & Shani Rhys James, Judge Jonathan Watkins)

  • 2016 Europa - Transition Gallery, London (selectors Cathy Lomax, Luci Eyers & Alli Sharma)

  • 2016 This Years Model - Studio 1.1, London (selectors, Marcus Cope & Robin Seir)

  • 2015 East Sussex Open - Towner, Eastbourne (selectors, Jonathan Watkins, Saskia Olde Wolbers & Sanna Moore)

  • 2014 BEEP Wales International Painting Prize, Commended - Elysium, Swansea (Iwan Bala & Ruth Cayford)

  • 2014 East Sussex Open - Towner, Eastbourne (selectors, Becky Beasley, Matthew Cornford & Sanna Moore)

  • 2014 20 Painters - Phoenix, Brighton (selected & curated by Patrick O'Donnell & June Frickleton)

  • 2013 cHART - Bad Behaviour Brixton East, London

  • 2012 East Sussex Open - Towner, Eastbourne

Awards

  • 2016 Beep Wales International Painting Prize - Winner

Residencies

  • 2015 Sotto Voce Residency - Sotto Voce Arts, Hastings

  • 2012 ALAS Autumn Residency - Matt Roberts Arts

Collections

  • Work held in private collections in London, Kent, East Sussex, and Madrid