A forthcoming exhibition at Louis Joel Gallery is a collection of works by a veteran musician and artist, Stu Thomas.
Describing himself as a naturally creative person, always scribbling away on his school desk, Thomas has turned his 30-year music career into an inspiration for making art.
Thomas had his first solo exhibition in 2017 and has since completed two more solo projects in addition to a number of group exhibitions, and has shown his art internationally.
“They’ve appeared in a few private collections. I think all over Australia, but also some in America,” he said of his work.
Thomas describes his art as a mission to bring out something that doesn’t exist in the world, with the tag-line for the exhibition being, “Today is tomorrow’s yesterday. Yesterday’s tomorrow, The past’s future. The future of the past”.
“Expressionist and representative most on the whole. But I’m always looking in my art to bring out something that doesn’t exist in the world as we know it,” he said.
With more than half of the collection having never been displayed before as some more of Thomas’s vintage work will be displayed.
“More than half brand new stuff hasn’t been shown before,” he said.
“There’s paintings and acrylic paintings, mainly on the canvas, and I found some oil paintings from the 80s that I did some of my first works.”
The opening of the exhibition is on Saturday, June 29, and it will run until Thursday, July 11.
Max Westwood
