Thomas’s aesthetic is graphic, linear and beautifully simple. There’s an underlying pattern or form to what Thomas sees, a calmness within chaotic surroundings. His vision brings a graceful stillness to the heart of his photographs. In Thomas’s still lifes and landscapes, he responds to spaces, natural and architectural, combining creativity, resourcefulness and a love of detail. He uses his cameras as facilitators of his ideas, looking for visual humour, playing with illusion and surface.

Thomas’s recent projects include film piece Pop, a play on the imagery of B-movies, painted onto umbrellas, in unexpected juxtaposition with British landscapes; and an imagined tour of a rock god’s house. Continuing his explorations of suspended objects in three-dimensional space, a new series draws tongue-in-cheek parallels between threatening yet weightless meteors and balls of scrunched-up paper.

Born in Aylesbury in 1981, Thomas Brown graduated from The Arts Institute in Bournemouth in 2004. Following a move to London he worked in-house at Condé Nast and as an assistant to Dan Tobin Smith.

Thomas’s work has appeared in Wallpaper*, Case da Abitaire, Intersection, Visionaire, Centrefold, The Matter Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph, AnOther Magazine, British & Russian Vogue and i-D. Clients include Art Fund, Coca-Cola, Swarovski, Nike, 3 Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Takashi Murakami and Marc Quinn.

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