Thom Igwe-Walker
Thom Igwe-Walker lives and works in London. He has an MA in Printmaking from Camberwell UAL and a Ba from Glasgow School of Art. He is a member of East London Printmakers.
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His work deals with concerns of how people understand and negotiate the physical landscapes around them, exploring these topics through drawing, printmaking, photography, poetry, short fiction and audio work.
C.V.
Education
MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art, UAL 2017-2019
Ba (hons) Fine Art: Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, 2007
School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2006
Art Foundation, Leeds College of Art, 2004
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PROJECTS (exhibitions, performances, readings, gigs)
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2022
East London Printmakers studio group show, London
2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021
Festival of Print 2021, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
East London Printmakers studio group show, London
2020
36th Annual Open Exhibition, Southwark Park Galleries, London
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2020
Hasting Open 2020, Hastings Museum, Hastings
2019
Festival of Print 2019, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
Camberwell MA Summer Show, Camberwell College of Art, London
Common Ground, group exhibition of MA printmakers, Lumberjack Cafe, London
2018
Printmaking Group show, High Holborn UAL Student Gallery, London
Camberwell MA interim show, Camberwell College, London
Chez Etym.: site (n.), Group Show, The Garment Factory, Glasgow
2017
Pop Up show, group show of students work at Camberwell College
The Boat, performance in group event curated by GHOST, Rotterdam
2016
Kepler’s Ruins, solo drawing exhibition, Mount Florida Studios, Glasgow
LAND, launch event of self published poetry, Good Press, Glasgow
2015
Performed at The Good Ship, Kilburn, London
Performed at The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
2013
Whitechapel Staff Group Show East Street Arts space, Warren Street, London
2012
Midnight Sun (performance weekend), The Old Hair Dressers, Glasgow
2011
What We Make With Words, CCA, Glasgow
Interior Lightning, Hepworth Wakefield staff show, Wakefield
Transmission members show, Glasgow
2010
(Attempts to) Understand Land, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow
2009
Ink Utero, The Duchy, Glasgow
Pittenweem Arts Festival, Fife, Scotland
Remake group show, temporary arts space, Edinburgh
2008
Dais (solo show), Glasgow
Space 93, temporary arts space as part of GI, Glasgow
2007
Sprezzatura Maze, group drawing exhibition, SWG3, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
Catalyst Arts, annual student show, Belfast
Performed with One Ensemble at Venn Festival, Bristol & Le Weekend Festival, Stirling
PUBLICATIONS
2018
Deep Time
Culebra
2017
LAND - editions 6 and 7, launched at ASP fair Glasgow, CCA
Scapegoat Hill - designed and published interactive novel written by Ben Walker
2016
LAND - Poetry Collection
The Burning Sand: Volume V
2015
Gnommero: Multiplicity
2013
Gnommero: Visibility
2012
Prawn’s Pee, GI newspaper, Glasgow
What We Have Done, What We Are About to Do, CCA
Victor & Hestor Journal 24 (with Graham Kelly and Michael Kent)
2011
Gnommero: Quickness
2010
Victor & Hestor: Journal 11
Victor & Hestor: Journal 9 (with Sam Kennedy)
Gnomerro: Visibility
Sneak Peak, for Remake exhibition, Edinburgh
Bareface Magazine volume 2, online arts magazine
2HB volume 6
Residencies and Awards
2017
Hospitalfield printmaking residency with the artist Michael Kent
2015
self directed drawing residency on the Isle of Eigg with the artist Michael Kent
self directed music residency in Glasgow
2009
Bursary winner, Pittenweem Arts Festival Fife, Scotland
2006
4 month exchange at SAIC, Chicago
