Thomas Lord,
Dunedin, New Zealand
BVA, Dunedin School of Art, Otago Polytechnic
+64224381379
thomaslord.nz@gmail.com

Currently undertaking an MFA and working as a Lecturer in the photography studio at the Dunedin School of Art. As well as photography, I’ve held exhibitions in painting where nostalgia, ecology and the concept of home form a common thread between the two media.

Exhibitions
2022  - Life’s a Gas, Art and Air Exhibition, Dunedin Community Gallery
2021  - Super Sport Sunday, Huw Davies Gallery at PhotoAccess, Canberra, Australia
           - Our Night Skies, The Hebridean Dark Skies Festival, Isle of Lewis, Scotland
           - National Contemporary Art Awards, Waikato Museum
           - Cleveland Art Awards, Duendin Railway Station
2020 - The Complete Entanglement of Everything, DSA Gallery, Dunedin
           - Our Oceans, Forester Gallery, Oamaru
           - Get Staffed Again, DSA Gallery, Dunedin
2019 - Puaka Matariki, Ocean Acidification Street Campaign, 
            Streets of Dunedin and Christchurch
          - Get Staffed, DSA Gallery, Dunedin
2018  - Art & Oceans, HD Skinner Annex, Otago Museum, Dunedin
2015  - In Conversation, Governors, Dunedin
           - Natsukashii, Dunedin Art Gallery  DAG)
2011   - SITE 11, Dunedin School of Art graduate show.
           - Systems, 205 Gallery, South Dunedin
2010  - Street View, 29 Stafford St, Dunedin

Awards and grants
2022, Finalist in Aotearoa Photobook Awards
2021, Finalist in National Contemporary Art Awards
2015, New Work Grant, Dunedin Fringe Festival
2011, OPEF Excellence Award, Otago Polytechnic

Artist Books / Zines
Neil Grant Master Potter 2021
Screams Like Home 2020
Summer Circuit 2020
Home (Totara BTS) 2016
Natsukashii exhibition catalogue