
Artist
Thomas Oscar Miles
My art looks to inspire self empowerment, through embracing our vulnerabilities. This is celebrated through fragile and detailed imagery, centered around the narratives. In my work, I talk about personal fears and darker experiences. I give my characters opportunities to wear these like a crown. How can we appreciate our light when we brush the darkness under the bed, ignored? I hope that my work can show people how multi-layered each one of us is, showing a unity in our humanity. I talk in my work about personal experiences such as mental health and my ever-growing relationship with my autism. I choose to represent these in my work through visuals such as decay, bones, and shadow filled corners of a woodland. My new series 'Our Beautiful Demise' speaks on a similar theme: wearing our fears with pride, binding them tightly to our flesh. I have grown up fearful of my personal shadows, I now instead hope to educate others on this and create a platform to spotlight issues we all go through.
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Exhibition Record
Echoes In Time
Continuing our Bursary Programme our Spring exhibition showcase, Echoes in Time, welcomes artists who in their work explore themes of identity, the self, and the effect of time on both these constructs. Whether it be through traditional portraiture or a presentation of the self in a more abstract or narrative space, the participating artists look at the complex relationships we have with the evolving self. Featuring artists, Thomas Oscar Miles, Rocio E. Bucheli, Genevieve Murray, Emma Roberts and Virginia Griem; Becky Nuttall's, "Art of the School"; and our Artist Support Pledge showcase.

























