Exhibition: The Bloomsbury Stud: The Art of Stephen Tomlin

He is, arguably, the Bloomsbury group’s least well-known member. Yet Stephen Tomlin (1901-1937), with his glossy mop of hair, disarming charisma and undeniable talent, deserves to be just as renowned as his contemporaries Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf.

Now the first major exhibition of his work at Philip Mould & Company is aiming to return Tomlin to the artistic spotlight where he belongs.

During his all too brief life and career, Tomlin established himself as the Bloomsbury group’s primary sculptor, immortalising the faces of his friends and fellow artists through a series of compelling busts, realised in a variety of materials and notable for their realism and stylised simplicity.

Philip Mould says: “Although he died tragically young, at the age of just 35, Stephen Tomlin’s legacy speaks to a life lived intensely and ferociously. Drawing upon the transformative research undertaken by Michael Bloch and Susan Fox, this exhibition will reveal the life of ‘Tommy’ and re-present his era-defining sculptural images.”