“For twenty years Tim Mitchell has studied the world of objects in contemporary life, asking ‘How do we live now and what do we value?’ His output includes bodies of work about our current energy transition and the oldest working factory in the world; about the mechanics and mythology of the Paris and Milan fashion weeks; about the process of recycling both clothes and ships globally; and about the ebb and flow of economic fortunes in Greece. Often collaborating with leading academic researchers and investigators, Mitchell asks what a sustainable, ethical model of production might look like. He examines the process by which value is created or lost through the birth and death of commodities in the forms of industrial products, luxury goods and heritage environments — from their production and promotion through to distribution and destruction. For Mitchell, people, places and objects — along with their transformation — hold the evidence of our changing value systems in the twenty-first century.” — Alistair Robinson – Director of the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
In conjunction with his photographic work, he has pursued a practice as an educator, working with schools, universities and the wider public to examine how we see the future and humans’ place in it.
Educated at Chelsea College of Art, he has subsequently staged major exhibitions at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, National Glass Centre, Horniman Museum, Museum of Arts and Crafts Hamburg, Cambridge Sustainability Residency and PhotoEast.