Mark Thompson Exhibition September 11, 2009

Mark Thompson will display his current paintings at Robin Gibson Gallery from September 12 to October 7.

Mark has participated in many solo and group exhibitions over his 38 year career, various public shows throughout all Australian states and territories. Since 1984 he has turned his talents elsewhere to theatre and corporate event designing, with highlights being the City of Sydney New Year's Eve Celebrations, event designer and set and costume designer for the Silk Road Asian cultural segment of the Doha Asian Games in Qatar, both in 2006. His design for the Australian Opera of "Lakme" is currently running in Miami.

“As a theatre practitioner and painter, fields of research and discovery are as serendipitous as life. The world presents itself as a resource of cultural and visual images to be re-interpreted and realised as additional metaphors, said Mark Thompson.

“A curiosity for the strange and bizarre coupled with a need to examine and explain the human condition leads one into the realm of the ordinary and the extraordinary. Recent political and cultural events demand a visual contextualization and the disturbing; scattered symbols are signifiers of a personal worldview,”

Mark Thompson was born in Darwin in 1949 and completed a Diploma of Fine Art majoring in painting in 1973 at the South Australian School of Art in Adelaide. He also completed a Diploma in Design majoring in Ceramics from the same school. He is currently painting full-time.

Mark Thompson will hold his solo exhibition at the Robin Gibson Gallery from September 12 to October 7.
His work is represented in over 20 public collections in Australia, including the Australian National Gallery, Canberra.