Ann Thomson
Ann Thomson celebrated her ninetieth birthday in October 2023. Born in Queensland in 1933, the daughter of a prominent Brisbane bookseller, she was genteelly brought up but was given plenty of leeway to express her natural physical exuberance. At her school, Somerville House, all of her art teachers (Caroline Barker, Patricia Prentice, June Meek, Betty […]
Ann Thomson: Osmosis
When Ann Thomson spoke to Bridget Macleod in Artist Profile Issue 35 (2016), she explained that ‘I put my mind into neutral when I paint, and when I’m painting I’m painting.’ From this ‘neutrality’ emerges its opposite: boldly expressive, gestural and memory-charged paintings which work across the figurative and the abstract at once. Since graduating […]
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Ann Thomson
Ann Thomson has been an important force in Australian art since she graduated from The National Art School over five decades ago.
Jamberoo Mountain Road
An exhibition presenting contemporary Australian artists’ reactions to the lush rainforest escarpment at Jamberoo.
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Tagged Ann Cape, Ann Thomson, Euan Macleod, Gina Bruce, Guy Warren, Jamberoo, Luke Sciberras, Max Miller, Michelle Cawthorn, Paul Ryan, Peter Sharp, rainforest painting, Riste Andrievski, Robert Malherbe, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, Steve Lopes
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