david thomas : small works
David Thomas
07.09.22-01.10.22
Blockprojects Images | Installation Images courtesy of Heide Museum MOMA : Love Poem to Life 6th August - 6th November, 2022.
“It’s not a matter of painting life, it’s a matter of giving life to painting.” - Pierre Bonnard
ON PAINTING AND TIME
PAINTING’S RESURRECTION. As a young art student in the 1970s I learnt that painting was dead, not house painting, the other sort, on canvasesand the like. Apparently painting in the Western world died again in1980s after a “reactionary” revival. Recently however the situation has changed in Australia and abroad. Painting is back. (To be honest it never went away, all that was for dramatic effect). Today the radical potential of paintingisbeing re-valued and resurrected asa dynamic generator of ideas, forms,of knowing and feeling. Painting’s radicalism, complexity, diversity, materiality, historicity as a mobile field of imaginative and material play, reflection and research is being explored more now than ever.
ARTWORKS:
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now & then : 40 years of abstraction
08.04.2022 – 16.04.2022
Installation images, Now & Then : 40 Years of Abstraction . Blockprojects, 2021. Photography: Simon Strong
This group exhibition features a selection of abstract works from the last 40 years.
ARTISTS:
Steven Asquith, Neil Keith Baker, Stephen Bram, Merric Brettle, James Clayden, Dan Dan Dai, Robert Jacks
Dale Frank, Marc Freeman, Denise Green, Kyle Jenkin, Michael Staniak, John Nixon, Julia Powles, David Thomas, Vivian Cooper Smith, Tom Vincent, Peter Westwood, what.
SELECTED ARTWORKS:
THE DIRECTOR’S CHOICE 2021: important australian & international works of art.
17.04.2021 – 28.04.2021
Installation images, The Director’s Choice 2021: Important Australian and international Works of Art. Blockprojects, 2021. Photography: Angela McKinnon
This group exhibition features a selection of abstract and figurative paintings, works on paper and sculpture by important Australian and International artists.
ARTISTS:
Tony Bevan,
James Clayden, Adam Cullen, Robert Jacks, John Olsen, David Thomas, Tony Tuckson, Ben Quilty, Brett Whiteley, Ken Whisson, Fred Williams.
SELECTED ARTWORKS:
David Thomas: Moving Times
03.03.21 - 03.04.21
Installation images, David Thomas; Moving Times. Blockprojects, 2021. Photography: Christo Crocker.
An exhibition of paintings and photopaintings by David Thomas
This exhibition includes large paintings, primarily monochromatic in nature, large scale photopaintings from the ongoing Impermanences Series; and smaller photo paintings from the Water/Wash Series.”
Please see the accompanying publication “David Thomas: Moving Times”, available for purchase from the gallery.
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ARTWORKS:
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HOW SOON IS NOW
12.08.20 - 12.09.20
Installation images, How Soon is Now. Blockprojects, 2020.
Blockprojects is proud to present, HOW SOON IS NOW,
an exhibition featuring fifteen contemporary artists who explore the mystery of abstraction.
ARTISTS:
Darren Munce
Julia Powles
Eduardo Santos
David Thomas
Tom Vincent
David Wallage
Peter Westwood
Neil Keith Baker
Merric Brettle
James Clayden
Dandan Dai
Robert Doble
Marc Freeman
Kyle Jenkins
Jason Haufe