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Tom Jeffreys

Tom Jeffreys is a writer based in Edinburgh. He is the author of two books: The White Birch: A Russian Reflection (Little, Brown, 2021) and Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on foot (Influx Press, 2017).

The selection includes an unmissable overview of Nil Yalter’s work and Laurence Sturla’s enigmatic topological sculptures 

BY Tom Jeffreys |

The 2023 edition of the biennial addresses the war in Ukraine alongside other conflicts and the related repression of dissent across the globe

BY Tom Jeffreys |

A show at Alison Jacques highlights the artist’s technical prowess and use of colour, but lacks critical discussion of her processes

BY Tom Jeffreys |

From the peat of the Scottish hill-tops, the artist embraces a material language of ritualism and transformation

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Tom Jeffreys speaks with the festival director ahead of her first edition in charge of the programme

BY Tom Jeffreys |

From Emily Kraus’s big, beguiling canvases at The Sunday Painter to Amanda Moström’s first solo exhibition with Rose Easton

BY Tom Jeffreys |

At Camden Art Centre, the artist’s first solo UK institutional show is imbued with latent dread

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Tom Jeffreys interviews the exhibition’s co-curator, Ksenia Malykh, about the significance of staging an exhibition in wartime, and the message it sends to Ukrainians and the world

BY Tom Jeffreys AND Ksenia Malykh |

This year's edition, ‘Persons, Persone, Personen’, celebrates ecologically minded contemporary art that is joyful and sensual

BY Tom Jeffreys |

As the COP26 conference approaches, how individual artists and artist institutions are responding to the demands of the climate crisis

BY Tom Jeffreys |

At Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, the artist’s retrospective approaches materials in a child-like manner with little regard for the objects’ origins or histories

BY Tom Jeffreys |

The artist’s new show at Dundee Contemporary Arts explores the intense physicality of collective sorrow through the body as landscape

BY Tom Jeffreys |

From Cample Line in rural Scotland to collective Myvillages, artists are reconsidering their relationship to ‘the rural’

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Television has long celebrated the before-and-after reveal of a freshly cleaned masterpiece – now many museums are showcasing the hidden art too

BY Tom Jeffreys |

The influence of Isaac Levitan’s 1897 painting Spring, High Water on 20th-century film

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Considering our scripted future at Helsinki Contemporary 

BY Tom Jeffreys |

‘It’s all there: charm, humour, ethics, friendship’

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Why is the figure of the witch and magical practice making a 21st-century comeback in the arts?

BY Tom Jeffreys |

For 112 days Sara Morawetz retraced the 2,000 kilometre journey of two 18th century astronomers, tasked with defining the length of a metre

BY Tom Jeffreys |

Featuring a proposal for a circular motorway around a mountain peak, the ‘weird and absurd’ work of the Russia-based artist

BY Tom Jeffreys |