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 nad recently for Vivid Festival, Sydney in 2018.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
Structural Integrity, Hill Smith Gallery SA
Depth Perception, Paul Johnstone Gallery, NT

2016
Fisher Jeffery’s Law Firm Gallery, SALA SA

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

2018
Metropolis Adeliade Airport SA
Impressions of Shandong and South Australia, South Australia and China Exchange SASA Gallery SA
The Fleurieu Art Prize 2018, finalist SA
Bridge Adel Fringe Harts Mill SA
Luminosity, Collaboration with Lina Limosani ANAT and ACC SA

2017
Hadley’s Art Prize, Winner People's Choice Award, Hobart
Liminal, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide
Asia Contemporary Art Show, Conrad Hotel, Hong Kong
Annex SALA Exhibition, Hill Smith Gallery SA
Tatalia Art Prize finalist SA
Maratime Art Prize, finalist Vic
Subjunctive, Ba3ement Gallery SALA Festival Collaboration with Lina Limosani SA
Sights and Impressions, Dashun Gallery, Shandong Academy Museum, Jinan China
Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing, finalist NSW
Wonderwalls, Hearts Mill, Port Adelaide SA
Grain Fringe Exhibition, Hearts Mill, Port Adelaide SA

2016
The Fleurieu Art Prize, Finalist, Samstag Museum of Art, SA
The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award finalist, The Advertiser, Keith Murdoch House SA 00011001
Adelaide Parkland Art Prize, Adelaide
Adelaide festival Centre, ArtSpace SA
The Landscape, Hillsmith Gallery SA
Royal Croquette Club Resident artist, Adelaide Fringe, SA Street Art Explosion Publisher Hotel Adelaide Fringe SA Rendering of conception, Unley Museum SA

2015
City of Whyalla Art Prize, SA
Sunshine Coast Art Prize, QLD
Sunshine Coast Art Prize 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,SA
Rise Festival Museum of Christchurch, NZ
The Fleurieu Art Prize, 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 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, 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, 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 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

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2018
Life in 2050, VIVID, Sydney NSW
Cultural Artist Delegate for SA, made in Adelaide Edinburgh UK
Multiple collaborations and performances, London, Edinburgh Fringe and Netherlands
Surge Festival Live performances Glasgow Scotland UK
Songs for those who’ve come across the sea, Cabaret Festival, Collaboration Slingsby SA

2017   
Cultural Artist Delegate for SA, Jinan China
Thing I know to be true Collaboration State Theatre Company SA and Frantic Assembly UK 2nd Tour United Kingdom
Emerging Art Walls, Unley SA
MOD Sci.ED large scale mural 50years projection MOD Sci.ED University of South Australia SA

2016
Thing I know to be true Collaboration with State Theatre Company SA and Frantic Productions UK
SNDCLSH collaboration with Access to Arts and DJ Trip

2015
do it [Adel], Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art UNISA, Adelaide 2013 Rise Festival, Museum of Canterbury and Christchurch city NZ
The Kreutzer Sonata, Collaboration with State Theatre Company SA, Adelaide Festival of the Arts

2013
Canberra Centenary Birthday, Collaboration drawing with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, Canberra ACT The Subjects, Artist sleep study, ANAT & Appleton Institute QLD University
Nest, Cirkids SA

2012
Lecturer, Drawing & Painting, University of South Australia

2011
Worldhood, Collaboration with ADT (Australian Dance Theatre), Her Majesty Theatre SA