Elizabeth Thomson

Elizabeth Thomson (born 17 October 1955) is a New Zealand artist.

Background

Thomson was born 1955 in Titirangi, Auckland. She graduated from the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1988 with a Master of Fine Arts. Thomson is based in Wellington.

Career

Thomson is a painter and sculptor utilising botanical, entomological or molecular forms and incorporating them into abstract geometric compositions. She uses various tools and mediums to create her works, including sculpture and miniatures.

In 1998, Thomson won the Paramount Award in the Wallace Arts Awards with her piece 'Southern Cross Paterre'. In 1987 and 1989 she received grants from the Arts Council of New Zealand.

Works by Thomson are held in the public collections of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.

Exhibitions

2017, The Black-and-whites, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2017, Invitation to Openness, Two Rooms, Auckland 2017, Landscape 2017, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington (group show) 2016, Freedom and Structure | Navigating the Zone, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2016, Subliminal, Two Rooms, Auckland 2015, Botanical Studies, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2015, Body of the Sentient, Two Rooms, Auckland 2015, Between Memory and Oblivion, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2014, Transitive States, Two Rooms, Auckland 2014, Hanene - Breathing Gently, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2014, Voyage Sauvage, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney 2014, Elysian Fields, Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua 2013, Landscape, Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2013, Auckland Art Fair 2013, Line/Form/Colour/Intention - An Exhibition Exploring Abstraction, Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2012, The Ocean of Eden, Two Rooms, Auckland 2012, Islands of Dodonaea, RH Gallery, Upper Moutere, Nelson 2011, Colour/Field, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington 2010, Another Green World, Tauranga Art Gallery, Tauranga 2009, Le Planete Sauvage, Two Rooms, Auckland 2009, Tonight in the Mystic Garden, Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North 2008, Astrophysics and the Thomson Effect, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington 2008, Supposition, Two Rooms, Auckland 2008, Horoeka, RH Gallery, Upper Moutere, Nelson 2007, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, Mark Hutchins, Wellington 2007, Studies for the Bigger Picture, Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland 2006, Elizabeth Thomson: My Hi-Fi, My Sci- Fi, touring show, curated by Gregory O’Brien for City Art Gallery, Wellington