​​’I try to make paintings that unsettle in a quiet way, creating a stillness that holds like static, stripped of explanation or comfort.’​​​​

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Jimmy Hyde (b. 1996, Bath, UK) is a contemporary painter based in London. Working in oil, his practice combines traditions of historical painting with digitally mediated imagery, exploring beauty, horror, and the abjection of collective memory.

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Drawing on celluloid and digital sources alongside his own compositions, his paintings treat contemporary imagery as a form of modern myth-making, offering rehearsal for death, uncertainty, and the unknown. The work exists between reason and the illogical, where evidence slips into belief; a memory of a memory, a picture of a picture.

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A self-taught artist, Hyde has exhibited in galleries across London and the United Kingdom. He continues to work as a carpenter, fabricator, and technician for galleries and museums.

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Selected Exhibitions

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Wide Eyed, D'stassi Gallery, London, May 2023

Short Circuit, Waste Space, London, April 2023

Non Linear, Burdall's Yard, Bath, March 2022 

The Midi, Walcot Chapel, Bath, June 2018

Pro Plus, Cascara, Bath, July 2017

Disco Normal, Walcot Chapel, July 2016

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