Terence Birch

b. 1982, United Kingdom

Terence Birch (b. 1982, UK) is an artist who lives and works in London. Through a practice encompassing painting, sculpture and drawing, the artist confronts social stereotypes around the disabled and debilitated body, masculinity, and aesthetic prejudice to locate where self-worth might reside. Drawing from both literature, social history as well as signal art-historical moments, Birch’s restricted and hindered forms, often rendered through the juxtaposition of unlike objects and materials, challenge norms and notions around reality versus fiction, harmony and dissonance, balance and imbalance. Birch holds a BFA from Goldsmiths, London (2005) and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2011). He was the recipient of the Neville Burston Award for Painting (2005) at Goldsmiths College; the Basil Alkazzi Scholarship Award at the Royal College of Art (2009); and the Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary (2018). 

Alongside his solo exhibition Tour de Horse at The Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London in 2012, recent group exhibitions include Ensemble curated by Hettie James and Stephanie Farmer and supported by Arts Council England, APT Gallery, London (2024); Crip Arte Spazio, curated by David Hevey and produced by Shape Arts, supported by Arts Council England, British Council, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, Creative Scotland and CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice, The DAM, Venice, Italy (2024); RCA and Core Arts: Inside Out, Core Arts, London (2023); In Out There, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester (2018); Periodical Review #3, selected by Matt Packer, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin (2013); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, selected by Angus Fairhurst, Paul Noble and Alison Wilding, The Coach Shed, Liverpool and Rochelle School, London (2006).