She recently exhibited with The Bunker Gallery at NEXT Art Fair, Chicago.
Thomas’ practice is concerned with representations of the animal. She has come to view the animal as a site for fictions; her work makes reference to displays found in museums of natural history, commenting on the institutions’ role in the formation of, and communication of, collective ideas / fictions about nature and the animal. She is interested in working with materials like clay, that have a certain concreteness to them, while representing something that can’t be pinned down and fixed. Her creatures have the look of things wronged, fed up, exhausted, or despondent. Slightly pathetic representatives of their species, they are not sitting pretty. The forms that she makes come close to the ornament but never quite sit comfortably.
Untitled - Clay and Wood - 2009
Untitled - Clay and Wood - 2009
