How it all went wrong for Stephen Tomlin Engelsberg Ideas | By Lucy Thynne
July 20, 2023
As a new exhibition at the Philip Mould Gallery in London suggests, Stephen Tomlin’s contemporaries were, at the least, charmed by the artist, more often in love with him. His lovers included Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, Sylvia Townsend-Warner, and Duncan Grant, to name just a few. Despite the fame of these names, Tomlin himself has largely slipped under history’s radar. He produced relatively little art in his lifetime, dying aged only 35 from alcohol abuse. What remains, as this exhibition proves, is luminous.
