DAVID THOMAS
b. 1951, AustraliaDavid 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.
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