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Tom Glover

Guest Writer

Tom Glover

Guest Writer

Biography

Tom Glover is an art writer. He has written for publications including British GQ, Plaster Magazine, and Unemployed Magazine. He publishes a regular-ish Substack, The Glover Compartment. He could not find a lost pop art painting.

Glover leads our opinion column, brave diaries, in a four part series starting from 2 September 2026.

The series continues from his well received piece, ‘King of the Interns’, and speaks to his lived experience as a recent graduate looking to find an entry point in the art industry.

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Diaries

Cafe Confidential

Struggling to maintain your creativity while working in hospitality? Guest writer Tom Glover has been there, done that.

14 Oct 2026

My £600 Year

Apparently, all an artist needs is time and space to create. Tom Glover put that adage to the test.

1 Oct 2026

Jobseeker

Tom Glover chose to live his nice life the hard way. This piece tracks his numerous and humiliating attempts to work in the arts after graduating.

16 Sept 2026

Serving the Man

Go behind the scenes at a catering shift from hell in a major cultural institution. Writer Tom Glover lifts the lid on his time as a waiter at a lavish dinner, where he almost fainted, encountered an outrageous guest, and passed judgement on the whole enterprise.

1 Sept 2026

King of the Interns

Never do an unpaid internship unless you really want to. Guest Writer, Tom Glover reflects on his brief stint as an unpaid intern in a commercial gallery in Mayfair. Weaving in other ex-interns experience and a rumination on privilege in the art world, 'King of the Interns' is discursive, witty, and attempting to make a serious point.

4 Aug 2026