My name is Tom. I’m a Liverpool-based artist working in moving image. My work imagines interior experiences as visible and looks at finding ways of connecting despite difference. Current interests informing my work include: neurodivergence, mental health, community and alienation.
Contact details
(+44) 07981 474 570
contact (at) tomshennan.co.uk
Recent commissions & grants
2024, Convenience Gallery (Birkenhead), Exhibiting
2024, Arte.M (Madeira), Exhibiting
2024, Collective Encounters, Music Videos
2023, Puncture the Screen, Exhibiting
2022, Four Nations International Fund, Digital hybrid project co-funded by Arts Council England/Wales/NI/Creative Scotland
2022, Puncture the Screen, Exhibiting
2021, Arts Council England, Developing Your Creative Practice
2021, New Creatives North, Film Commission co-funded by ACE and BBC Arts
2021, Puncture the Screen, Art Commission funded by National Lottery / ACE
2021, Museum of Liverpool, Exhibiting for LGBTQ+ History Month
2020, COoL (Open Culture & Homotopia) w/ Public Health Liverpool, Covid Response Commission
2020, Liverpool City Culture Board, Creative R&D Grant
2020, Virtual Collaborators Festival, Film Commission
Residencies & other positions
Aug 2023 – Visual artist/Filmmaker, Velocities – University of Gloucestershire
Jul 2023 - Visual artist/Filmmaker, Velocities – Talawa
Aug 2022 to Apr 2023 – Lead Artist – All the Screen’s a Stage
Jan-Jul 2022 – Digital Artist – Z-arts
Oct 2021 – Visual artist/Filmmaker, Velocities – Streatham Space Project
Aug 2021 – Visual artist/Filmmaker, Velocities – The Space
Jul 2021 – Visual artist/Filmmaker, Velocities – Kala Sangam
Oct 2020-Aug 2021 – Associate Artist, Radical Makers – Collective Encounters
Education
MA, Film Directing (distinction) – Edinburgh College of Art, 2014/15
On location at Crosby beach directing ADHD POTPOURRI
Speaking on a panel at Sheffield Doc/Fest