Dr. Tom Mence is a disabled, UK-based, painter and practice-led researcher.

Tom’s practice-led research examines the relationship between a painting, the act of painting, the construction of a painting - and a verbal stutter.

With an interest in the home, and the stuff we surround ourselves with, as a rich vein of source material, Tom’s aim is to use his painting practice to displace the perception of dysfluent forms of dialogue and movement away from being understood as conditions needing to be cured (or made fluent), towards them being recognised as - and transformed into - creatively beneficial, studio-based, strategies.