David Thomas
Colour. Time.
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Works from this Century. (and other things)
David Thomas is one of Australia’s leading contemporary Abstractionists. His practice encompasses non-figurative painting, photopainting and painting installation. Thomas’s work often employs monochromes and painted reflective surfaces to mirror actual space and time; enabling issues of perception, complexity and formal language to be considered. Informed by Non-Objective, Concrete and Conceptual traditions of painting his practice addresses being, amid time and space.
Image 1. End of Summer: Homage à Tati (Small Splash) 2009. Enamel on photo on Dibond, 101 cm. x 135 cm.
Image 2. Locating the Monochrome (Tokyo, White), 2008. Enamel on photograph on Dibond. 40 cm. x 73 cm.
Image 3. Turning around the light Lido Roma, 2009. Acrylic on photograph on Dibond, 101 cm. x 135.5 cm.
Image 4. Locating Colour: Green, (Tokyo), 2007-8. Acrylic on photograph on Dibond, 32 cm. x 42.5 cm. Private collection Melbourne
Image 5. Movement of Grey (London), 2008-9. Acrylic on photograph on Dibond, 32 cm. x 42.5 cm.
Image 6. Dogs Of London Series ( Small Green) 2009 Acrylic on photograph, 10 cm. x 15 cm.
Image 7. 3 Times; 3 Spaces (Paris), 2006. Enamel on photograph on Dibond, 99.5 cm. x 151.5 cm. Private collection, Melbourne.
Image 8. Amid History fragmented, 2007. Enamel on photograph on Dibond, 32 cm. x 32 cm Private collection Melbourne
Image 9. Amid History 2, 2006. Enamel on photograph on Dibond, 100 cm. x 150 cm. Collection: National Gallery of Victoria.
Image 10. Amid the Dark Night of the… , 2006. Enamel on photograph on Dibond, 100 cm. x 150 cm. Private collection Melbourne