Tim Garwood is a painter of intuition and spontaneity. Often gleaning materials from the streets and from his studio to construct paintings, the works are alive with a real and potent force. He paints on IKEA tablecloths, sacking, fragments of canvas on the floor, wood, lace, denim, shoelace, glass, exploring a visual language across paintings, drawings and mixed media works. Garwood tests each material’s ability and performance under the weight of studio debris and heavy swathes of paint. His abstraction is one of tactile immediacy, his vocabulary truthful and instantaneous, oscillating freely between suggestions of place, collective experience and association. His paintings constantly investigate the ways that colours exist in relation to each other, the weight and capability of his materials and the transformative capabilities and exploration of painting itself.
Tim Garwood (b, 1984, Epsom, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset.
Selected Exhibitions
2025
Shake the cloud from off your brow, Sim Smith, London, UK (upcoming)
A Green Place, Philip Martin Gallery, LA, USA (solo)
2024
Tim Garwood, Emily Hunt, Kemi Onabulé, Daisy Parris, NADA Miami, USA
Loud It Up, Sim Smith, London, UK (solo)
Emily Hunt & Tim Garwood, Sim Smith, NADA New York, USA
Transparency, Lyndsey Ingram, London, UK
2023
Stellatundra, Sim Smith, London, UK
Super Deluxe Violet Sky, Denny Gallery, Hong Kong (solo)
Two person exhibition with 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
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