Tom Halsall (b. 1999, Lancaster, UK) received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in 2025. His paintings interrogate the definition of the human body and explore bodies beyond the finite limits of flesh and bone. He investigates the superstructure of contemporary society and the substructures within that, and their influence on human bodies. He seeks to articulate the idea that these systems are not separate from us; they are extensions of ourselves, shaped by human constructs. By warping, distorting, and merging the human body, and incorporating both learned and invented symbols, his paintings take on an ethereal, mythic quality — linking it to the indeterminate metaphysical body.