Tom Anholt

The first monograph to explore the narrative, dreamlike paintings of British artist Tom Anholt

Through layered storytelling and vivid allegory, Tom Anholt’s paintings traverse between the cosmic and the everyday. Anholt constructs serene, psychologically rich scenes in which the natural meets the manmade, often illuminated by glowing moonlight that reflects off watery expanses. His modern-day fables speak to our perpetual and vital desire for wonderment, human interaction, and love.

This book, the first to survey his career from 2016 to the present, shows the range of Anholt’s work through a selection of sixty carefully chosen paintings. An art-historical overview is followed by short texts on individual paintings from world-leading curators as well as writers that cross the disciplines Anholt is drawn to, including music, education, and astrophysics.

Sarah Lea is an independent art historian, curator, and writer on modern and contemporary art.

Nora Abakar is a musician based in Berlin.

Claire Gilman is Acquavella Curator and Department Head of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York

Alison Hearst is Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.

Cathérine Hug is Curator of 20th Century Art at Kunsthaus Zürich.

Tessa Praun is a curator, educator, and writer based in Stockholm.

Laura Smith is Director of Collection and Exhibitions at the Hepworth Wakefield.

Charity Woodrum is a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Derek Fordjour is an artist based in New York.