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Portrait of artist and curator Tom Milnes — Tom Milnes

Tom Milnes is an artist and curator based in the UK. His practice explores the materiality of imagery and technology, and the ways media glitches, errors and hidden subcultures shape how we see the physical and digital worlds.

He works with photogrammetry, augmented reality, NetArt, sculpture and socially engaged projects. These technologies are often pushed off course—misread, disrupted or repurposed—to reveal the assumptions built into digital images and automated systems.

Recent projects include Ashnihilation, a public augmented-reality commission that reimagined Plymouth Hoe through threatened and speculative ecologies; the exhibitions SCANITAS and SCANITAS:lab; and the online curatorial platform Polygon Palm. His work has been shown internationally in the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, China, Korea and Canada.

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Solo projects

2025 — SCANITAS:lab, KARST, Plymouth.
2025 — SCANITAS, Studio KIND, Barnstaple.
2022 — Ashnihilation, Green Minds commission, Plymouth.
2021 — Invisible Cities, Wellcome Sanger / One Cell At A Time, online.
2018 — Catalogue of Errors, MRS Project Space, Oxford.
2016 — Obscurer, Monty’s Gallery, London.
2012 — Kioku, The Wapping Project, London.
2010 — Tom Milnes — New Work, AND/OR, London.
2008 — Deep Relaxation, Ferreira Projects, London.

Selected exhibitions

2024 — Rolodex Propaganda, KARST, Plymouth.
2023 — Northern Sustainable Futures, iMKonsthall, Moskosel, Sweden.
2021 — FORMAT International Photography Festival, Derby.
2021 — The Preserving Machine, Implied Gallery.
2018 — Ex-Machines, Living in Hyperreality, Fringe Arts Bath.
2017 — Ex-Machines, MOSTYN OPEN//AGORED, Llandudno.
2015 — Toronto Urban Film Festival, Canada.
2015 — Birmingham Open Media.
2012 — SIGN, Groningen, Netherlands.

Curatorial

Founder and curator of Polygon Palm and Digital Artist Residency.
2024 — Rolodex Propaganda, KARST / The Wrong Biennale.
2020 — Wretched of the Screen, Wrong Biennale embassy and Magdalen Art Space.
2019 — Humachine Flux, OVADA.
2019 — This Image Is No Longer Available, Modern Art Oxford; co-curated with Sunil Shah.
2019 — Remember Me, Magdalen Art Space.
2018 — What The Walls Say, Museum of Oxford.
2017 — Overnight, Museum of Oxford.

Qualifications

Year	Qualification	Awarding body
2021	PhD	Falmouth University / University of the Arts London
2012	PGCE Secondary Education, Art & Design	Goldsmiths, University of London
2011	MFA Fine Art	Sandberg Instituut, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
2006	BA (Hons) Fine Art, First Class	Oxford Brookes University

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