Tom Leighton

Throughout my practice, I have worked with urban landscapes and digital manipulation.

About:
Tom Leighton is an artist, photographer and printmaker. Fascinated by the urban environment, he has photographed and worked with iconic and hidden architecture world-wide. He has photographed both ancient cities and the newest metropolises built on land reclaimed from the sea.
Trained at the Royal College of Art, London, Leighton expertly manipulates images to allow us to imagine alternative cities of the present and the future. He seeks beauty in everything, from functional buildings to the most ornate architecture. He repeats motifs in unexpected places, repositions existing structures and contrasts the natural and the artificial: bright city lights set against natural night skies, concrete against greenery, business against eerie nighttime stillness.
Leighton asks us to reconsider our cities, what they are and what they might become. He pushes us to notice the beauty inherent in these populated places, the architecture and our place within it. At once futuristic and reflective, Leighton’s work demands multiple takes. Read Less

AT&T Corporate Collection, USA
The V&A Museum, London
ING Group, London
Kunsthalle Weishaupt Collection, Germany
MuCEM (French National Museum of European and Mediterranean civilisations)
The Sandor Family Collection, Chicago
The Shein Family Collection of Pennsylvania
The UBS Art Collection, London
William Blair, Chicago / London
UCLH, London
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