Project Description
About Liesel Thomas
Liesel Thomas graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2004. Following a residency with Takt Gallery in Berlin, she has exhibited internationally within group shows in Edinburgh, London and Berlin, and now lives and works in London. Thomas exhibited in the BP Portrait Award 2018, she is a member of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters and has works displayed in the Groucho Club permanent collection in London.
Education:
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL - BA (Hons) Degree 2000-2004
Forthcoming exhibitions:
John Lennon is not Dead
The Stash Gallery, October 2020
80 artists are making an artwork which will be exhibited at The Stash Gallery at Voot-O-Reenee’s Club, The Crypt, 30 Prescot Street, London E.1 8BB. Artists include: Magda Archer, Eddie Argos, Gordon Beswick, Mel Brimfield, Kirsty Buchanan, Louise Camras, Bula Chakravarty Agbo, Billy Childish, Emma Coleman, Jerry Dammers, Chalkie Davies, Ben Dickson, Sarah Doyle, Tinsel Edwards, Kevin Eldon, Jono Ganz, Mikey Georgeson, Peter Harris, Kyle Hawkins, Georgia Hayes, Sadie Hennessey, Alice Herrick, Russell Herron, Nicola Hicks, Marguerite Horner, Tony Husband, Kim James-Willaims, Fabienne Jacquet, Chantal Joffe, Corin Johnson, James Johnston, Dominic Kennedy, Phil King, James Lawson, Charlotte Lee, David Lock, Peter Lloyd, Cathy Lomax, Lee Maelzer, Jo Mama, Jules Mann, Josie McCoy, Hugh Mendes, Richard Arthur Mittens, John Moore, Kate Murdoch, Sophie Parkin, Joseph Paxton, Harry Pye, Aidan O’ Sullivan, Max Reeves, Corey Samuel, Alli Sharma, Adrian R. Shaw, Bob & Roberta Smith, Rowland Smith, Duglas Stewart, Uzma Sultan, Liesel Thomas, Kath Thompson, Anna Titov, Chris Tosic, Sandra Turnbull, Twinkle Troughton, Francis Upritchard, Natasha Vassiliou, Jessica Voorsanger, Julian Wakeling, Loretta Wall, Edward Ward, Willkay, Vanessa Winch, Bonnie Wong, Rose Wylie and Agnieszka Zapala.
CURRENT/FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Perceptions
Islington Art Space, London
3rd March - ongoing
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
RCA Secret 2018
Royal College of Art, Kensington, London
30th November - 3rd December 2018
The Groucho Club - Permanent Collection
Soho, London, acquired 2018
The BP Portrait Award 2018
UK touring exhibition…
Winchester Discovery Centre
30 March – 26 June, 2019
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
15 December 2018 – 10 March, 2019
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
13 October – 30 November, 2018
The National Portrait Gallery, London
14th June - 23rd September
The Cass Art Festival
The Bargehouse, London 2017
Incognito
Royal Over-Sees League, London, 2016-2017
The Grand Tour
Royal Over-Sees League, London, 2015
Life is Elsewhere
The Crypt Gallery, London, 2011
muhl-tuh-fair-ee-uhs
Sunbear Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2010
Open Open
Swiss Cottage Library, London, 2010
Unrelated Oxides
Fold Gallery, London, 2009
The Arts Show
Dover St Arts Club, London, 2009
Come Check My Gaff
London, 2008
Ruhe Bewahren
Tacheles, Berlin, 2007
Experiments with Figuration
Lyndhurst Way Gallery, London, 2007
20 Hoxton Square
20 Hoxton Square Gallery, London, 2007
A Home for Lost Ideas
General Public Gallery, Berlin, Germany, 2006
Arts Unwrapped
Southgate Studios, London, 2006