Thom Buchanan

THOM BUCHANAN

Thom Buchanan is a painter and cross-disciplinary artist residing in Adelaide. He graduated with a BVA (Honors) degree in 2010 from the University of South Australia and has exhibited extensively locally and nationally.
In the last ten years Buchanan developed his unique "live Performance art" techniques through new collaborations including the performance in 2011 ‘Worldhood’ with Australian Dance Theatre, as well as performing across Australia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014       
Recapitulate, Hill Smith Gallery, SA November 2014

2013       
Mapping Place, Art Pod Space, Adelaide City Council, SA
Built Cartography, Art Pod Space, Adelaide City Council, SA
Landmarks, Paul Johnstone Gallery, NT

2012        
City Souls, Aptus Cruz SA

2009       
Urban Fragments, Gallery 139, SALA Festival SA
Poignant Peripheral, Gallery 139 Adelaide SA (solo)

2008       
Built Environment, CCEA Gallery, Darwin NT
Viewing Point II, Gallery 139, Adelaide SA

2006       
Delirium, FAD Gallery, Adelaide SA
Urban landscapes, Big Star Gallery, Norwood, Adelaide SA
Viewing Point, FAD Gallery, Adelaide SA          

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
Liminal, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide

2016
The Fleurieu Art Prize 2016, SA
The Advertiser 2016 Contemporary Art Awards SA
Adelaide Parkland Art Prize 2016 SA

2015
City of Whyalla Art Prize 2015 SA
Sunshine Coast Art Prize ’15 QLD
Sunshine Coast Art Prize ’15 Environmental Art Prize QLD

2014    
The Fleurieu Art Prize 2013, SA
Melbourne Art Fair 2014, Hill Smith Gallery Stand A111
City of Whyalla Art Prize 2013 Finalist –Festival Centre SA
Light up the lantern, SALA ANAT & ACC SA

2013     
City of Whyalla Art Prize 2013 SA
Rise Festival Museum of Christchurch, NZ
The Fleurieu Art Prize 2013, Finalist, SA
Local Landscapes, Adelaide Airport & Penny Hill Winery, SA
Canberra Centenary, Canberra Museum and Gallery ACT
Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbrige Gallery, finalist QLD
The Advertiser 2013 Contemporary Art Awards finalist, The Advertiser, Keith Murdoch House, SA
Every Second, Adelaide Town Hall, Adelaide Fringe SA

2012     
The Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Photography Award 2012, QLD
Perceptions, AP Bond Gallery, SA
Q-View, NSW
See Beyond the Landscape, Gallery M, SA
Visions for Now Adelaide Festival Centre, Art space SA

2011     
The Stan + Maureen Duke Art Prize finalist, Gold Coast Art Gallery, QLD
City of Whyalla Art Prize 2011, finalist SA
Paste Modernism 3, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, NSW
Worldhood, Collaboration with ADT (Australian Dance Theatre), Her Majesty Theatre, SA
Moving Image Project, SALA Festival, Adelaide SA

2010   
The Stan + Maureen Duke Art Prize finalist, Gold Coast Art Gallery QLD
Sunshine Coast Art Prize ’10 finalist, Caloundra Art Gallery QLD
Excursion, Carbon Black Gallery VIC
Eleven, Gallery 139 Adelaide SA SALA Festival
Moving Image Project SALA Festival, Queens Theatre Adelaide SA
Scape, Loft Gallery VIC

2010     
Emerging Curators Project, Curator Brigid Noone, Arts SA, SA
Portable Worlds 2 Touring Exhibition, Regional South Australia 2010-‘11
Every thing has a surface, Gallery 139 Adelaide SA
Small, Magazine Gallery SA
Helpmann Graduate Exhibition ’09, Drill Hall SA

COLLABORATIONS

2013    
The Centenary of Canberra 2013 live drawing with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra
The State Theatre Company on 'The Kreutzer Sonata', Adelaide Festival
‘The Subjects’ with ANAT and the ‪CQUni Appleton Institute