Terence Birch is a London-based artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, and drawing. His work explores disability, masculinity, and aesthetic bias, whilst challenging societal stereotypes around the disabled and debilitated body, as well as notions of self-worth.
Drawing inspiration from both literature, social history and art-historical moments, Birch’s work brings together contrasting objects and materials to create forms that appear restricted or hindered. The resulting works intend to evoke a feeling of tension in the viewer– a push and pull between opposites such as reality versus fiction, harmony versus chaos, and balance versus imbalance.
Birch studied at Goldsmiths University of London before completing an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London. Recent exhibitions include Ensemble at APT Gallery, London and Crip Arte Spazio at CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo, Venice.
Terence Birch will be staying at The Art House this summer as 2025’s recipient of the Patricia Sutcliffe residency. Find out more about Birch’s practice here.
Images in order:
Grotesque Torso (Oh Richard, Darling, You Can Prove a Lover), 2018
Stains of a Sickening, Sexy, Spectre, 2005
Portrait of the Artist (after Degas), 2005
Cover image:
Grotesque Torso (Oh Richard, Darling, You Can Prove a Lover) installation view, at Crip Arte Spazio: The DAM in Venice, 2024