Tom Godfrey

Role

Tom Godfrey is the Director of Bonington Gallery, part of NTU Arts – Nottingham Trent University's extra-curricular and public arts programme.

Career overview

Tom graduated from NTU in 2003 with a BA in Fine Art. Alongside fellow graduates he co-founded the artist-run gallery Moot that went on to build a strong national and international profile and won two Nottingham Creative Business Awards over consecutive years.

Later, Tom co-founded the studio organisation One Thoresby Street and studied on the MFA programme at Glasgow School of Art from 2010-2012 after receiving a scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust.

Tom worked for a leading commercial gallery in London for 5 years, whilst curating independent exhibitions and projects in cities such as New York, Berlin, Paris, The Hague and Glasgow. In 2013 Tom became the first curator to sell a curatorial project to the Arts Council Collection, containing artworks by 20 artists based locally, nationally and internationally.

In 2014 he became a resident of Nottingham’s independent art organisation Primary; founded the independent gallery TG and later that year he joined the team at Bonington Gallery where he has worked since.

In 2022 he became a co-editor of Version, an online and printed magazine platform that explores relationships between fashion and technology.

External activity

Tom is the Founding-Director of TG: www.tgal.co

Links to projects outlined in the career overview can be found here: www.tomgodfrey.co.uk

Tom is a resident and Trustee of Primary: www.weareprimary.org

Sponsors and collaborators

Tom has received monetary support from a broad range of public and private funders for several of his projects. He has collaborated with many internationally revered artists, curators, stakeholders and art organisations.