Thomas Hutton
the United Kingdom
b.1983
Born in London in 1983, Thomas Hutton grew up in rural north Wiltshire. He completed an MA (hons) in architectural history at the University of Edinburgh (2002-6) before receiving a scholarship to study sculpture at Yale University (2010-12). At Yale he took several classes in the architecture department, notably with Peter Eisenman who helped turn his attention to Rome. His work is often characterized by an intense commitment to materials and research, that often define where he lives and works.
After moving to Rome then Athens, he spent several years in Cy Twombly’s former studio in Bassano in Teverina, where he begun making totemic lamp sculptures from ‘peperino’ tuff—a local volcanic stone—and calcite alabaster sourced from Egypt. In 2023 he moved his studio into an active travertine quarry in Tivoli near Rome.
Hutton’s drawings and sculptures have been exhibited at Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2015), MOCA, Los Angeles (2018), Kunsthaus, Zurich (2024), and MACRO, Rome (2024-5).
