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Andy Thomson
Associate Professor in Visual Arts
MA Goldsmiths College, London University
Laresa Kosloff and Andy Thomson / Commissioned by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art June 2011
2005 Still Life Theory, curated by Lee Inbuom, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Seoul, Korea
2005 Still Life Theory, curated by Lee Inbuom, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Seoul, Korea
2009 Karaoke Theory, Light Projects, Melbourne, Australia. Photography: Clare Rae 2009
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Research interests:
My art practice has been sustained by an interest in the nature and perception of the real; in both phenomenological and philosophical senses of the word. Educated as a painter, I have worked to extend my engagement with the pictorial space of painting to encompass the formal and phenomenal aspects of its most fundamental qualities: light, colour, space, composition and the frame. I now work predominantly as a collaborative artist, working with others and with construction and video to explore the perceptual experience of reality in light and of form, both architectural and otherwise. I am interested in how artists’ sense of (cultural and personal) identity and ownership of their ideas and artwork can be extended and enriched through a collaborative process of art production and presentation.
Selected presentations and publications:
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Flower Theory with Monique Redmond at “Apartment” Melbourne
2007 Taebek Mural Project Cheoram Mining District Korea
2006 Karaoke Theory, SHOW Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2003 Retime Collaborations, Korean Institute of Culture, University of Seoul
1999 Deferred Authorship Collaborative Installation with Kim Jin Hee
Seocho Institute, Seoul, Korea
1998 Deferred Presence/Differed Presence Collaborative Installation with David Thomas
Canberra Institute of the Arts Gallery, Australian National University, Canberra
1997 General Review of Gain and Loss Collaborative Installation with Leslie Eastman
and Daniel von Sturmer, Westspace, Melbourne
1996 Andy Thomson and David Thomas Collaborative Installation, King Street, Melbourne
1987 Turning Interim Gallery, London University
1982 Site Specific Installation Gallery Café, Southwark Park, London
1983 Lyrical Exhibition Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2005 Still Life Theory curated by Lee Inbuom, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Seoul Korea
- 2002 Connecting Principles, curated by Michelle Hirschorn, Newcastle upon Tyne
- 1998 Cube for Strangely Familiar, curated by Claire Williamson, Andy Thomson, Leslie Eastman, Daniel von Sturmer, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Short Term for Mnemosyne Collaborative Installation, Andy Thomson and Daniel von Sturmer, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
- 1997 Arriving at the Other Parallel: Australian Works on Paper, curated by Christella Demitriou Athens Greece
- 1996 Expanded Field: Five Hundred Sites curated by David Thomas, Westspace, Melbourne
- 1995 Sufi Box Exhibition of Boxes National Gallery of Victoria, RMIT Staff Exhibition Australian High Commission, Singapore, Site Specific Installation Five Days, Twenty-Five Artists, Gold Street Gallery, Melbourne
- 1992 Works on Paper curated by Peter Ellis, Storey Hall Gallery, Melbourne, Installation RMIT Interdisciplinary Field Course Exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
- 1987 Group Exhibition Goldsmiths Interim Gallery, Goldsmiths, London
- 1986 Whitechapel Open Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Selected Reviews and Publications
- David Cross Andy Thomson and David Thomas-Collaboration catalogue essay (nov.1995)
- Stephen O’Connell General Review of Gain and Loss review, Art and Text, issue no. 61, 1997
- Kate Shaw General Review of Gain and Loss review, Like Magazine, edition no.5, 1997
- D.J Huppatz Habitat and Strangely Familiar cover feature/review, Like Magazine ed.no.7, 1998
- David Cross, Tanya Eccleston, Sophia Errey General Review of Gain and Loss catalogue essays
- Nov.1997 isbn: 0-646-34592-3
- Anita Bragg Strangely Familiar review, Herald Sun, 23.9.1998
- Peter Timms Games of Selective Vision review, The Age, 23.9.1998
- Claire Williamson Strangely Familiar catalogue essay, Morning Star, Evening Star, 1998
- isbn: 0-947220-71-2
- Larry Schwartz Memories are Made of These review, The Age, 23.5.1998
- Peter Hill Deferred/Differed Presence catalogue interview with Andy Thomson and David Thomas
- oct.1998 isbn: 0-7315-3004-7
- Sonia Baron Deferred/Differed Presence review, The Canberra Times, 19.9.1998
- Scott McQuire and Greg Defteros Mnemsoyne catalogue essay, 1998
Essays and Papers
- ‘The Truth Effect’ catalogue essay for New, curated by Juliana Engberg, ACCA, Melbourne
- 2004
- ‘The Truth Effect’ catalogue essay for Daniel von Sturmer, Reason and Emotion curated by Isabel Carlos
- Sydney Biennale (co-written with Tanya Eccleston) 2004
- ‘An Installation by Collaborating Artists’ catalogue essay for Retime Collaborations, Seoul, Korea, 2003
- Drawing in Time, a conference paper for The Monash Drawing Symposium, September 2005
- ‘Kiosk’ catalogue essay for Substructure Conical Inc July 2007
- Collaborative Practice Critweek Massey University, September 2007
- 1981 Tower Hamlets Picture Loan Scheme
- 1988 Arts Victoria Project Grant
- Pat Corrigan Artists Grants Programme (managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Australia Council)
- RMIT Professional Research and Development Grant
- 1998 Australian National University Project Grant
- 1999 RMIT Overseas Residency Research Grant
- Seoul University Artist Residency, Seoul, Korea
- 2003 ASEM Duo Korea, Exchange Professorship Award
- Artist Residency and Exhibition, Korea Digital University
- LIFE, WORK, ART ADC-LTSN (UK) Curriculum Development National Grant: Teaching Professional Practice in the North East of England; a cross- institutional initiative to further employment opportunities for recent graduates of fine art. Initiated, directed and managed by Andy Thomson and Ian Nixon (Careers Section) for the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Newcastle University Fine Art Research Grant (new projects)
- Isaac Newton and the Colour Prism
- 2005 Public Sculpture Commission for Sculpture Park, Taebek, Korea
- 2007 Public Mural Commission Cheoam Taebek Korea
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