Drawing from a wide-ranging set of influences including the natural world, ecology, the built environment, technology and fatherhood, the artist's practice is rooted in autobiography and material exploration. His process is driven by investigation through construction and deconstruction, with an expansive and boundary-less approach to materials in the studio.
In research, he works across painting, drawing, collage, photography and stitching, elements of which frequently find their way into the finished works themselves. Employing diverse aesthetic strategies and unconventional methods of paint application, Garwood continually navigates tensions between fluidity and stasis, beauty and ugliness, control and disorder.
Tim Garwood (b, 1984, Epsom, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset.
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Sim Smith, London (solo) (upcoming)
2025
A Green Place, Philip Martin Gallery, LA, USA (solo)
Shake the cloud from off your brow, Sim Smith, London, UK
The Armory Show, Sim Smith, New York, USA (solo booth)
Time's Arrow, Philip Martin Gallery, LA, USA
Works from the Prominent Collection of Lady Victoria Beecham, Thames-side Studios Gallery, London, UK
Between Worlds, Caroline Jackson and Tim Garwood, The Arts Club, London, UK
2024
Loud It Up, Sim Smith, London, UK (solo)
Transparency, Lyndsey Ingram, London, UK
2023
Stellatundra, Sim Smith, London, UK
Super Deluxe Violet Sky, Denny Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
Tim Garwood and Daisy Parris, Arario Gallery, Shanghai, China
UNTITLED Miami Beach, Sim Smith, Miami
West Bund, Arario Gallery Shanghai
Cornershop, Sim Smith, London
2022
Horatiu Boldor, Sim Smith, London (solo)
The Art of Fake News, Rich Mix, London
2020
Abroad From Earth, Sim Smith, London (solo) (catalogue)
2019
How Small A Thought, curated by Anne Ryan as part of Margate Festival
What Kind of Spirit is This?, Sim Smith, London, curated by David Surman
2018
Bad Grammar, Galería Combustión Espontánea, Madrid (solo)
Cloud Concrete, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK
2017
Be Right Back, Brick Lane Studios, London, UK
Artist Rooms, Copeland Gallery, London, curated by Alexander Caspari
House of St Barnabas, SOHO, London
Selected Bibliography
2025
'Tim Garwood embraces Found Materials', Oliver Lunn, Palette Talk
2024
'London Gallery Weekend 2024: our critics pick their top shows', Ben Luke and Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper
2022
'The Pleasure of Experimenting', Jonathan Tomlinson, Then There was Us
Talks
Tim Garwood 'Loud It Up', Artist Walkthrough, London Gallery Weekend, Sim Smith, London, UK, June 2024