Dr Tom Milnes

Research Fellow

Tom Milnes is an artist, curator and researcher based in the UK. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Blended Realities, Falmouth University. Milnes’ practice explores the materiality of imagery and technology, engaging with the cultural impact of media through glitches, errors or hidden subcultures. His practice explores the aesthetics of digital imagery incorporating emergent technologies such as photogrammetry, augmented reality and NetArt methods, often through sculptural or social-engagement practices, as ways to challenge our relationship to digital technology and the physical world. Milnes recently completed Ashnihilation; a major public artwork commission for European Research Development Fund/Green Minds, which reimagines Plymouth’s relationship with nature through HoloLens augmented reality headsets.

Milnes has exhibited internationally including at: W139 - Amsterdam , AND/OR - London, CEAC – Xiamen, The Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia - Gdansk, and Gyeonggi International Biennale - Korea. Milnes has recently curated the exhibition Rolodex Propaganda at KARST, Plymouth (April 2024) He is the curator of the online platform Polygon Palm.

Research Fellow

Contact details

Email tom.milnes@falmouth.ac.uk
Tom Milnes
Tom Milnes
Tom Milnes
Tom Milnes

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    2001 Ph.D Falmouth University/UAL
    2012 PGCE. Secondary Education Art & Design Goldsmiths College, UOL
    2011 MFA Fine Art Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
    2006 BA(Hons) Fine Art, First Class Honours Oxford Brookes University

    Professional Engagement

    Independent professional practice

    Solo shows:

    o Scanitas, StudioKIND, Barnstaple, February 2025.
    o Ashnihilation, Green Minds commission, Plymouth Sept 2022.
    o Invisible Cities, Wellcome/Sanger One Cell At A Time, online 2021.
    o Catalogue of Errors, MRS Project Space, Oxford, UK – 2018;
    o Obscurer, Monty’s Gallery, London, UK – 2016;
    o Kioku, The Wapping Project , London, UK – 2012;
    o Tom Milnes – New Work, AND/OR, London, UK – 2010;
    o Deep Relaxation, Ferreira Projects, London, UK – 2008.

    Selected Exhibitions:

    o iMKonsthall, Northern Sustainable Futures, Moskosel, Sweden - 2023
    o FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby, UK. – 2021.
    o The Preserving Machine. Implied Gallery. https://implied.gallery/ - 2021.
    o Remember Me, Magdalen Art Space, Oxford, UK – 2019.
    o Ex-Machines, Living in Hyperreality, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath, UK. – 2018.
    o Ex-Machines, MOSTYN OPEN//AGORED, Mostyn, Llundudno – 2017.
    o Deep Relaxation, Spring Roll Call, The Morgue, Chelsea College of Art – 2017.
    o White Marble, Toronto Urban Film Festival, Canada – 2015.
    o JHB Archive, Birmingham Open Media, UK – 2015.
    o fourfold, Enclave, London, UK – 2015.
    o In The Loop, Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria – 2014.
    o The Baker, The Harpist & The Drummer, SIGN, Groningen, Netherlands – 2012.
    o Summer Shows, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, UK -2009.
    o The Colony, Kunsthuis SYB, Netherlands - 2010.

    Engagement with professional associations and societies

    • Green Minds/ERDF