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Edited by Mark Sealy and Livvy Murdoch
Thompson Hall is a London-based artist whose colourful palette takes inspiration from artists including Althea McNish, Ronald Moody and Kehinde Wiley, to provide an acute commentary on urgent societal issues around race, inequality and social welfare. Following Thompson Hall's residency at Autograph in 2022, we worked with the artist and ActionSpace - where Hall is a Resident Artist - to produce the first monograph of Hall's work.
Titled Colour Is My Signature, the hardcover publication features more than 30 images across 64 pages, with an introduction from Artistic Director & CEO of ActionSpace, Sheryll Catto, an in conversation between the artist and Autograph's director, Mark Sealy, and a text from curator Linsey Young providing a contemporary context for the work.
Colour Is My Signature foregrounds work produced by Hall since 2016 and is an outcome of the UK-wide EXPLORERS project, highlighting the extraordinary contribution neurodiverse people make to art and culture.
In collaboration with Robstolk Amsterdam
Commissioned for the book
With thanks to Dr Sheena Calvert for the print design
Documenting Hall's work with professional image scanning provided by Beyond Print
Continuing Autograph's long-standing relationship with artist Thompson Hall
The monograph provides an advocacy tool for the artist
Thompson Hall is a London based artist. Through abstracted symbols and text, Hall’s work explores the inequalities of society and the world around him regarding politics, social change, marginalisation and, most recently, the impact that Covid-19 has had on our society.
Primarily working with acrylic paint and pastel drawings, Hall’s often colourful palette takes inspiration from artists including Althea McNish, Ronald Moody and Kehinde Wiley. Hall was awarded an Emerging Artist commission and a Micro Grant from Unlimited in 2017 and 2020. He has exhibited in group shows across the UK. He has also had solo exhibitions at Regency Town House in Hove, Brighton Dome, and Glasgow's Project Ability. Thompson Hall is a Resident Artist at ActionSpace. Find out more.
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Addressing issues of empire, social welfare, the cost-of-living crisis and the ongoing impacts of Covid-19
See moreView a selection of works Hall produced during his residency at Autograph
See more Thompson Hall: Colour Is My Signature was published by Autograph as part of the EXPLORERS Project supported by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation. EXPLORERS is a national creative programme for increasing the visibility and representation of neurodivergent artists in contemporary visual art. We are grateful to Sheena Calvert at .918 Design and the team at Robstolk Amsterdam for all their work on the monograph.
Banner image: Thompson Hall: Colour Is My Signature, Mark Sealy and Livvy Murdoch (eds.), published by Autograph, 2024.
Images on page: courtesy of Sheena Calvert
About the artist image: Thompson Hall, courtesy of ActionSpace.
Project image: Thompson Hall, ABP Autograph [detail], 2018 © and courtesy of ActionSpace.
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