About
Thomas W.H. Compton (b.1996, UK) is an artist and printmaker working with vestigial and contemporary technological print processes; analogue drafts layer into digital compositions before translation into print editions. Silkscreen and sculptural printing matrices become more than reproductive tools, their application becomes an embodied method of thinking; ink permeating through the stencil membrane onto the substrate becomes at once an act of construction and excavation, of stratification and preservation.
Exhibitions/Print Fairs
2025 RCA Master’s Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2025 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Summer Show, Woolwich Works, London, UK
2024 Weald Contemporary, ‘Under the Laurels’, West Sussex, UK
2023 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, Woolwich Works, London, UK
2023 Longest Night Fijuk Marknad, Gothenburg, SE
2022 World Illustration Awards, Somerset House, London, UK
2020 All Stars Exhibit PDP Conference, Novi Sad, SRB
2019 World Illustration Awards, Somerset House, London, UK
2019 Shake, Bristol, UK
Awards
2023 Collector Highlight, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
2022 Longlisted Artist, World Illustration Awards
2021 Honourable Mention, 3x3 Magazine Awards
2019 Shortlisted Artist, World Illustration Awards
Residencies
2023 Harvey Lloyd Screens, Wadhurst, UK
2020-23 Ocean Studios, Plymouth, UK
2019-20 Ochre Print Studio, Guildford, UK
Collaborations & Commissions
2024 Penguin Random House. Vintage Classics. ‘War and Peace’ by Leo Tolstoy
2022 Stay Creative Co. AW22. ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’
2022 Moseley Folk & Arts Festival
2021 Muchelney Pottery
2020 Stay Creative Co. SS20. ‘The Wicker Man’
Press / Publications
2025 Royal College of Art: Online Profile
2024 Weald Contemporary: In Conversation
2023 Pressing Matters: Issue 21 ‘Nowt Stranger than Folk’
2022 Stay Creative Co.: ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’