ESTELLE THOMPSON
b.1960 Lives and works London and Barbados
1983-1986 MA Royal College of Art, London
1979-1982 BA Fine Art (Hons) Sheffield Hallam University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 In Colours Where We Meet, Ambacher Contemporary, Munich
2016 Artist of The Day, Flowers Gallery, London*
2014-15 White Lies, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
2009 Estelle Thompson, PurdyIHicks, London*
2006 Estelle Thompson, PurdyIHicks, London*
2004 True Colours, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm*
2003 Estelle Thompson PurdyIHicks, London*
2001 Being Here: New Paintings, The New Art Gallery Walsall*
Punctuation Paintings, PurdyIHicks, London*
2000 Estelle Thompson Recent Paintings, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham*
1999 Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Estelle Thompson, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
1998 Fuse Paintings, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Mead Gallery, Warwick; The Bracknell Gallery, Bracknell; Purdy Hicks Gallery*
Fuse Monotypes, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1997 Estelle Thompson, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
1996 Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London*
Estelle Thompson, Galerie Helmut Pabst*
1993 Estelle Thompson, Paintings 1992-93, Purdy Hicks Gallery,London; Winchester Gallery; Towner Art Gallery; Eastbourne & Darlington Arts Centre*
1991 Estelle Thompson, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London*
1989 Estelle Thompson, Eastbourne Clark Gallery, Florida*
1989 The Paintings of Estelle Thompson, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 beginning, The Brighton Storeroom, Barbados
2018 The Momentum; Relative Trajectories, Angus Hughes Gallery
Once I Had A Vision..Hand of Darkness, Mo_Space, Manila
2017 Entr’acte: intermission, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris
Fully Awake, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
Occasional Geometries, Longside Gallery Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Faith, Austin Forum, London
Among The Colours, North Lodge Gallery, UCL London
Imperfect Reverse, Anglia Ruskin Gallery, Oxford
2016 Imperfect Reverse, Camberwell Space Projects, London*
Contemporary Abstract Prints, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2015 In Light of The Monochrome, Dye House Gallery, Bradford*
Kaleidoscope Eyes, Austin Forum, London
Equivalence, Asa Briggs Hall, Richmond AIU, London
DACS Foundation, Londonewcastle, London
Carbon meets Silicon: ITA, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
(detail), The Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2014 Do You Believe in Angels? Equator Art Projects, Singapore and Mo_Space, Manila
Drawn Together Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
(detail) H-Project Space, Bangkok & Transition Gallery London*
Head to Head (Standpoint), Standpoint Gallery, London, *
It’s Very Quiet Here, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, Jerwood space, London
2013 Head to Head, Rogue Project Space, Manchester *
Small is Beautiful XXI Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue, Flowers
Theory & Practice of the Small Painting, Equator Art, Singapore
Colour as Material, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Black and White Flower Painting, 2010 St Mary’s Hospital, London
2012 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London *
Back and Forth, B55 Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest *
2011 Maquettes, Furnished Space, London
Drawing 2011, Drawing Room, London
The New Hall Art Collection Biennale, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University
2010 Calligrams, Eagle Gallery, London
Sameness and Difference, The Russian Club Gallery, London
The Art of Function, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
‘A’ is not equal to ‘A’, Quare, London
We are 10! , The New Art Gallery Walsall
2009 Drawing Biennial 2009, Drawing Room, London
The Voice & Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, London*
2008 L’apres moderne, Project Midi, Brussels, Belgium
Tipping Point, PurdyIHicks, London
Drawing Breath, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; The Robert Gordon University Gallery, Aberdeen
2007 Drawing Breath, Gallery One, National Art School Sydney
2006 Drawing Breath, Galllery at Wimbledon College of Art, London*
Mulitiple Choice, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Brigstock
Sixty Years Celebrating the Arts, The Arts Council Collection,
2005 The New Hall Art Collection, New Hall, Cambridge; Purdy Hicks Gallery Artists, PurdyIHicks, London
2004 Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
Summer Show, Jane Deering Fine Art, Annisquam, Massachusetts
2003 Three from the Royal College of Art, London, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA
British Contemporary Artists from PHG, Jayne Deering Gallery
Print Matters, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Santa Smiles, OLS&CO, London
Hybrid, Artlab 28, London
2002 Prints, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Arts, Bath
Summer Exhibition in Annisquam, Jane Deering, MA, USA
Purdy Hicks Gallery at the Fine Art Society, The Fine Art Society, London
2001 Felim Egan, Estelle Thompson Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art NY
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London*
Einmal Leiwand, Einmal Papier, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
2000 BLUE: borrowed and new, The New Art Gallery Walsall*
British and Irish Contemporary Art, Jane Deering, Annisquam, MA
1997-99 History, The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Cartwright Hall, Bradford,York City Art Gallery Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne*
1998 Etchings from Hope(Sufferance )Press, Malborough Graphics, London & NY Publishers Fair, Brooke Alexander Editions, NY
Ten Years of Printing at Hope(Sufferance)Press, Sun and Doves Gallery, London
1997 The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London
Shadow of Life, Art97, Business Design Centre, London*
1995 Cabinet Art, Jason & Rhodes, London
Credo, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
The Question of Scale, Gosport Museum, Gosport, Evreham, Bucks, Bedales Gallery, Petersfield, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, Arnolfini, Bristol*
Six British Painters, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt, Germany
1994 Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1993-5 Moving into View : Recent British Painting, Royal Festival Hall, London Touring to Darlington Arts Centre; Chapter, Cardiff; Oriel Gallery, Mold, Newlyn Orion Gallery, Penzance, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan; Harrogate Museum & Art Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1993 Bruise - Painting for the Nineties, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1992-93 (dis)parities,Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffied & Purdy Hicks Gallery, London*
1992 The Discerning Eye 1992, The Mall Galleries, London*
Heaven & Hell, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
Women’s Art at New Hall, New Hall, Cambridge*
10th Anniversary Castelfield Gallery, Manchester & Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Bruise, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Allegories Of Desire, The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
1991 Homage To The Square II, Flaxman Gallery, London
The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
Art In Worship, Tewkesbury Abbey, Worcester*
23e Festival International de La Peinture, Château-Musee de Cagnes – Sur-Mer, France*
Homage To The Square, Flaxman Gallery, London
1990 The Theory & Practice of the Small Painting,,Anderson O’Day, London
New Acquisitions, Unilever House, London*
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1989 Art and Nature, Flaxman Gallery, London*
Painters at Winchester, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester*
1988 Women and Water, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London
A green Thought in a green Shade, Richard Pomeroy Gallery,
Royal Overseas League Annual, Overseas House, London*
1987 The Opening Show, Richard Pomeroy Gallery, London
Artists who studied with Peter de Francia, Camden Arts Centre*
Landscape /Urbanscape , Paton Gallery, London
1986 Three Painters From The RCA, Paton Gallery, London
*publication of catalogue or monograph
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain British Midland
British Council County NatWest
British Museum De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.
New York Public Library The Economist Group
Contemporary Art Society Arthur Anderson & Co
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Coopers & Lybrand
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Credit Suisse First Boston
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Deutsche Bank
Oldham Art Gallery Eversheds, Birmingham
The New Art Gallery, Walsall Pearl Assurance
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Goldman Sachs
New Hall College, Cambridge Pearson plc, New York
De Montfort University, Leicester Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
University of Warwick Unilever plc
TI Group plc Reed International
Pallant House Gallery
COMMISSIONS, AWARDS & PROJECTS
2017-18 John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
2016-17 Canouan Suite & Other Pieces (Papilotte Press) a collection of poetry, prose and image by Philip Nanton ISBN: 978-0-9931086-7-9
2016 UCL Research Catalyst Awards
2014 Hull PCT/LIFT & Slade Press, London - commissioned print edition
2009-12 Centre for the Creative Industries, Wrexham Glyndwr University
2009-10 Catrin Finch Centre, Wrexham Glyndwr University
2008-11 South Bristol Community Hospital, Bristol
2008-10 The Orchard Centre, Hull
1999 Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
1993 Quaglino’s, St James’s, London commissioned by Sir Terence Conran
1990 Prudential Award for the Arts 1990/Arts Council Special Award
1988 Royal Overseas League Travel Award
1983 Ethel Willis, Ethel Henriques & Fred Richards Memorial Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2008 Trelex Residency, Trelex, Switzerland
2009 Book Art and Peer Exchange Summer Residency, Trelex, Switzerland
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2015 DACS Foundation Auction, DACS Foundation, Mark Waugh
2010 The Robert Deveraux Collection of Post –War British Art, Sotheby’s
2009 Painting Today, Tony Godfrey, Phaidon Press
2009 Artist Estelle Thompson on Malevich, Tate Modern magazine Autumn
2009 Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2006 Estelle Thompson, Open Geometries, Michael Archer, London, Purdy Hicks Gallery
2004 True Colours, Bjorn Wetterling, Stockholm, Wetterling Gallery,
2001 Estelle Thompson, (monograph) Tony Godfrey and Deborah Robinson, London, Merrell
Art Works – British & German Contemporary Art 1960-2000, Mary Findley, Alaistair Hicks,
Friedhelm Hutte, London, Deutsche Bank, Merrell
2000 Estelle Thompson, Deborah Dean, Nottingham, Angel Row Gallery
The TI Group Art Collection, Paul Huxley RA, London, TI Group plc.
Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1998 Estelle Thompson, Fuse Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Anna Moszynska,Usher Gallery, Lincoln;
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; South Hill Park,Bracknell; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Vision,Edward King, Kendal, Abbott Hall Art Gallery
1997 Moving Targets: A User’s Guide To British Art Now, Louisa Buck, London,Tate
1996 Estelle Thompson in Conversation, Dennis de Caires, London
Estelle Thompson, Tony Godfrey, London, Purdy Hicks Gallery; Frankfurt, Galerie Helmut Pabst
1995 The British Council Collection 1984-1994, Andrea Rose, The British Council
1993 Estelle Thompson Paintings, Paul Bonaventura & John Gillett, London, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
1992 New Hall Art Collection, Marina Vaizey, Griselda Pollock
1991 Estelle Thompson, Deborah Dean, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Estelle Thompson, Mel Gooding, London, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
1989 Estelle Thompson, Tony Godfrey, London, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mark Golder, Contemporary Abstract Prints, Pallant House Gallery magazine, July- October 2016
Mark Waugh, DACS Foundation Auction, DACS Foundation, 2015
Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens, Shibusa- Extracting Beauty, University of Huddersfield Press 2012
Tony Godfrey, Painting Today, Phaidon 2009
Estelle Thompson, Artist Estelle Thompson on Malevich, Tate Modern, Autumn 2009
Sam Steverlynck, l’apres modern, Art Review Issue 28, December 2008
Charles Danby, Estelle Thompson, Miser and Now Issue 8, January 2008
Michael Stubbs, Tipping Point, Turps Banana Issue 4, March 2008
Michael Archer, Estelle Thompson, Artforum International, March 2004
Pablo Lafuente, Art in the Making, Print Review, 2002
Steven Short, Secrets and Limes, Fabric, April 2002
Pryle Behrman, Proactive Print Dealing, Printmaking Today, Winter 2001
Clare Stewart, Making an Impression, Times, London, 31 March 2001
Heather Neil, Exhibition: New Art Gallery Walsall, Review, February 2000
Terry Grimley, No one’s feeling Blue at Walsall Art Gallery, Birmingham Post, February 2000
Blue: borrowed and new exhibition catalogue The New Art Gallery Walsall, February 2000
William Packer, New Home for a Gifted Collection Financial Times, 29 February 2000
Hugh Stoddart % for Art: Milton Keynes Theatre and Art Gallery Public Arts Journal, March 2000
Ria Higgins, The Art of SE1, Sunday Times Magazine, 7 May 2000
Robert Clark, Prada Goes Green, Guardian, April 2000
Richard Ingleby, Estelle Thompson, Independent, 1 April 2000
Paul Huxley, The TI Group Art Collection TIGAC Catalogue, 2000
Ron Hammick, Art for Art’s Sake, Observer, 11 April 1999
Louisa Buck, Estelle Thompson, Art Newspaper, November 1999
William Packer, Estelle Thompson, Financial Times, November 1999
Alistair Hicks, Estelle Thompson: Beyond the Edge, Antique Interiors International Issue 34, 1999
Susan Wilson, The Weather for Painting AN Visual Arts, March 1998
Tony Godfrey London and Manchester Recent Painting, Burlington Magazine, September 1998
Know thy friends, RA Magazine, Summer 1998
Simon Morley, Light as Surface, Contemporary Art Issue 15, Autumn/Winter 1997
Sandy Kitching, Contemporary British Art Shows, Vision, 1997
Andrew Lambirth, Purdy Hicks Profile, Galleries Magazine, May 1997
Sasha Craddock, Around the Galleries: New London Shows, Times 1 October 1996
Andrew Lambirth, Estelle Thompson, What’s on in London 2 October 1996
Kate Miller, The Art of the Matter, Harpers & Queen magazine, January 1995
Iain Gale, Making Marks on the Memory, Independent, 11 January 1995
Christopher Smith, All `Paintings about Painting’, Eastbourne Herald, 29 January 1995
Alan Hatcher, Estelle Thompson, Art Preview, January 1995
Andrew Lambirth Estelle Thompson RA Magazine Autumn 1993
Sue Hubbard, Estelle Thompson, Contemporary Art Vol.2, No.1, Winter 1993
Charles Hall, No Head for Figures, Art Review, July‐August 1993
Mary Sara, Disparities and Countervail, Contemporary Art Vol.1, No.3, Spring 1993
Tim Hilton, Rising in the East End, Guardian, 25 June 1992
Sue Hubbard Out of the Ghetto? Galleries Magazine June 1992
Andy Tipper, Bruising the Canvas, What’s on in London, July 1992
Robert Clark, Bruise, Guardian, 8 July 1992
Mark Sladen, Bruise – Painting for the 90s, Frieze Issue 6, September‐October 1992
Tom Lubbock, Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’ in Brum, Independent on Sunday, 19 July 1992
Terry Grimley Abstractions with a Familiar Look Birmingham Post 24 July 1992
Robert Clark, Estelle Thompson, Guardian, 19 June 1992
Karen Wright, Gallery, Modern Painters, Summer 1992
Tony Godfrey, A British Painting for the 90s, Art in America, April 1991
Sue Hubbard, Estelle Thompson, Time Out, 2 October 1991
Iain Gale, Estelle Thompson, Art Review, 20 September 1991
Luke Elwes, Luminous Icons, Galleries Magazine, September 1991
Sister Wendy Beckett, Art in Worship, Art Review, September 1991
Alistair Hicks, Young British Painters, Antique and New Art, Autumn 1991
Mark Curragh, Art and Nature, City Limits, 3 August 1989
Mary Rose Beaumont, Estelle Thompson, Art Review, October 1989
Sue Hubbard, Estelle Thompson, Time Out, 20 October 1989
Rose Jennings, Estelle Thompson, City Limits, November 1989
Mark Curragh Estelle Thompson City Limits January 1988
Sarah Kent, Change in Art, Time Out, 6 January 1988
Alistair Hicks, Vision and Illusion, Spectator, 16 April 1988
Sarah Kent A Green Thought in a Green Shade Time Out 20 April 1988
Mark Curragh, Landscape/Urbanscape, City Limits, 12 February 1987
Monica Petzal, Landscape/Urbanscape, Time Out ,24 February 1987
Mary Rose Beaumont, Landscape/Urbanscape, Art Review, February 1987
Iain Gale, Estelle Thompson, The Times, 27 November 1987
Tony Godfrey, Art Now: Budding Talents, Galleries Magazine, November 1987
David Lee, Estelle Thompson, Art Review 1987
Brian Hatton, Studio Artists/Richard Pomeroy, Artscribe International, Summer 1986
b.1960 Lives and works London and Barbados
1983-1986 MA Royal College of Art, London
1979-1982 BA Fine Art (Hons) Sheffield Hallam University
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 In Colours Where We Meet, Ambacher Contemporary, Munich
2016 Artist of The Day, Flowers Gallery, London*
2014-15 White Lies, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
2009 Estelle Thompson, PurdyIHicks, London*
2006 Estelle Thompson, PurdyIHicks, London*
2004 True Colours, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm*
2003 Estelle Thompson PurdyIHicks, London*
2001 Being Here: New Paintings, The New Art Gallery Walsall*
Punctuation Paintings, PurdyIHicks, London*
2000 Estelle Thompson Recent Paintings, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham*
1999 Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Estelle Thompson, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
1998 Fuse Paintings, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Mead Gallery, Warwick; The Bracknell Gallery, Bracknell; Purdy Hicks Gallery*
Fuse Monotypes, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1997 Estelle Thompson, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
1996 Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London*
Estelle Thompson, Galerie Helmut Pabst*
1993 Estelle Thompson, Paintings 1992-93, Purdy Hicks Gallery,London; Winchester Gallery; Towner Art Gallery; Eastbourne & Darlington Arts Centre*
1991 Estelle Thompson, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London*
1989 Estelle Thompson, Eastbourne Clark Gallery, Florida*
1989 The Paintings of Estelle Thompson, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 beginning, The Brighton Storeroom, Barbados
2018 The Momentum; Relative Trajectories, Angus Hughes Gallery
Once I Had A Vision..Hand of Darkness, Mo_Space, Manila
2017 Entr’acte: intermission, Galerie Abstract Project, Paris
Fully Awake, House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
Occasional Geometries, Longside Gallery Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Faith, Austin Forum, London
Among The Colours, North Lodge Gallery, UCL London
Imperfect Reverse, Anglia Ruskin Gallery, Oxford
2016 Imperfect Reverse, Camberwell Space Projects, London*
Contemporary Abstract Prints, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2015 In Light of The Monochrome, Dye House Gallery, Bradford*
Kaleidoscope Eyes, Austin Forum, London
Equivalence, Asa Briggs Hall, Richmond AIU, London
DACS Foundation, Londonewcastle, London
Carbon meets Silicon: ITA, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
(detail), The Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2014 Do You Believe in Angels? Equator Art Projects, Singapore and Mo_Space, Manila
Drawn Together Artist as Selector, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
(detail) H-Project Space, Bangkok & Transition Gallery London*
Head to Head (Standpoint), Standpoint Gallery, London, *
It’s Very Quiet Here, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, Jerwood space, London
2013 Head to Head, Rogue Project Space, Manchester *
Small is Beautiful XXI Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow & Blue, Flowers
Theory & Practice of the Small Painting, Equator Art, Singapore
Colour as Material, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Black and White Flower Painting, 2010 St Mary’s Hospital, London
2012 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London *
Back and Forth, B55 Contemporary Art Gallery, Budapest *
2011 Maquettes, Furnished Space, London
Drawing 2011, Drawing Room, London
The New Hall Art Collection Biennale, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge University
2010 Calligrams, Eagle Gallery, London
Sameness and Difference, The Russian Club Gallery, London
The Art of Function, Oriel Sycharth Gallery, Wrexham
‘A’ is not equal to ‘A’, Quare, London
We are 10! , The New Art Gallery Walsall
2009 Drawing Biennial 2009, Drawing Room, London
The Voice & Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, London*
2008 L’apres moderne, Project Midi, Brussels, Belgium
Tipping Point, PurdyIHicks, London
Drawing Breath, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol; The Robert Gordon University Gallery, Aberdeen
2007 Drawing Breath, Gallery One, National Art School Sydney
2006 Drawing Breath, Galllery at Wimbledon College of Art, London*
Mulitiple Choice, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Brigstock
Sixty Years Celebrating the Arts, The Arts Council Collection,
2005 The New Hall Art Collection, New Hall, Cambridge; Purdy Hicks Gallery Artists, PurdyIHicks, London
2004 Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
Summer Show, Jane Deering Fine Art, Annisquam, Massachusetts
2003 Three from the Royal College of Art, London, New England School of Art and Design, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA
British Contemporary Artists from PHG, Jayne Deering Gallery
Print Matters, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Santa Smiles, OLS&CO, London
Hybrid, Artlab 28, London
2002 Prints, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Arts, Bath
Summer Exhibition in Annisquam, Jane Deering, MA, USA
Purdy Hicks Gallery at the Fine Art Society, The Fine Art Society, London
2001 Felim Egan, Estelle Thompson Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art NY
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London*
Einmal Leiwand, Einmal Papier, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt
2000 BLUE: borrowed and new, The New Art Gallery Walsall*
British and Irish Contemporary Art, Jane Deering, Annisquam, MA
1997-99 History, The Mag Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Cartwright Hall, Bradford,York City Art Gallery Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne*
1998 Etchings from Hope(Sufferance )Press, Malborough Graphics, London & NY Publishers Fair, Brooke Alexander Editions, NY
Ten Years of Printing at Hope(Sufferance)Press, Sun and Doves Gallery, London
1997 The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London
Shadow of Life, Art97, Business Design Centre, London*
1995 Cabinet Art, Jason & Rhodes, London
Credo, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
The Question of Scale, Gosport Museum, Gosport, Evreham, Bucks, Bedales Gallery, Petersfield, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, Arnolfini, Bristol*
Six British Painters, Galerie Helmut Pabst, Frankfurt, Germany
1994 Drawing, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1993-5 Moving into View : Recent British Painting, Royal Festival Hall, London Touring to Darlington Arts Centre; Chapter, Cardiff; Oriel Gallery, Mold, Newlyn Orion Gallery, Penzance, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan; Harrogate Museum & Art Gallery, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1993 Bruise - Painting for the Nineties, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1992-93 (dis)parities,Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffied & Purdy Hicks Gallery, London*
1992 The Discerning Eye 1992, The Mall Galleries, London*
Heaven & Hell, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
Women’s Art at New Hall, New Hall, Cambridge*
10th Anniversary Castelfield Gallery, Manchester & Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Bruise, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Allegories Of Desire, The Small Mansion Arts Centre, London
1991 Homage To The Square II, Flaxman Gallery, London
The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
Art In Worship, Tewkesbury Abbey, Worcester*
23e Festival International de La Peinture, Château-Musee de Cagnes – Sur-Mer, France*
Homage To The Square, Flaxman Gallery, London
1990 The Theory & Practice of the Small Painting,,Anderson O’Day, London
New Acquisitions, Unilever House, London*
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1989 Art and Nature, Flaxman Gallery, London*
Painters at Winchester, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester*
1988 Women and Water, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London
A green Thought in a green Shade, Richard Pomeroy Gallery,
Royal Overseas League Annual, Overseas House, London*
1987 The Opening Show, Richard Pomeroy Gallery, London
Artists who studied with Peter de Francia, Camden Arts Centre*
Landscape /Urbanscape , Paton Gallery, London
1986 Three Painters From The RCA, Paton Gallery, London
*publication of catalogue or monograph
PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain British Midland
British Council County NatWest
British Museum De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd.
New York Public Library The Economist Group
Contemporary Art Society Arthur Anderson & Co
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Coopers & Lybrand
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Credit Suisse First Boston
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Deutsche Bank
Oldham Art Gallery Eversheds, Birmingham
The New Art Gallery, Walsall Pearl Assurance
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Goldman Sachs
New Hall College, Cambridge Pearson plc, New York
De Montfort University, Leicester Reynolds Porter Chamberlain
University of Warwick Unilever plc
TI Group plc Reed International
Pallant House Gallery
COMMISSIONS, AWARDS & PROJECTS
2017-18 John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
2016-17 Canouan Suite & Other Pieces (Papilotte Press) a collection of poetry, prose and image by Philip Nanton ISBN: 978-0-9931086-7-9
2016 UCL Research Catalyst Awards
2014 Hull PCT/LIFT & Slade Press, London - commissioned print edition
2009-12 Centre for the Creative Industries, Wrexham Glyndwr University
2009-10 Catrin Finch Centre, Wrexham Glyndwr University
2008-11 South Bristol Community Hospital, Bristol
2008-10 The Orchard Centre, Hull
1999 Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
1993 Quaglino’s, St James’s, London commissioned by Sir Terence Conran
1990 Prudential Award for the Arts 1990/Arts Council Special Award
1988 Royal Overseas League Travel Award
1983 Ethel Willis, Ethel Henriques & Fred Richards Memorial Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2008 Trelex Residency, Trelex, Switzerland
2009 Book Art and Peer Exchange Summer Residency, Trelex, Switzerland
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2015 DACS Foundation Auction, DACS Foundation, Mark Waugh
2010 The Robert Deveraux Collection of Post –War British Art, Sotheby’s
2009 Painting Today, Tony Godfrey, Phaidon Press
2009 Artist Estelle Thompson on Malevich, Tate Modern magazine Autumn
2009 Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2006 Estelle Thompson, Open Geometries, Michael Archer, London, Purdy Hicks Gallery
2004 True Colours, Bjorn Wetterling, Stockholm, Wetterling Gallery,
2001 Estelle Thompson, (monograph) Tony Godfrey and Deborah Robinson, London, Merrell
Art Works – British & German Contemporary Art 1960-2000, Mary Findley, Alaistair Hicks,
Friedhelm Hutte, London, Deutsche Bank, Merrell
2000 Estelle Thompson, Deborah Dean, Nottingham, Angel Row Gallery
The TI Group Art Collection, Paul Huxley RA, London, TI Group plc.
Estelle Thompson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
1998 Estelle Thompson, Fuse Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Anna Moszynska,Usher Gallery, Lincoln;
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; South Hill Park,Bracknell; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Vision,Edward King, Kendal, Abbott Hall Art Gallery
1997 Moving Targets: A User’s Guide To British Art Now, Louisa Buck, London,Tate
1996 Estelle Thompson in Conversation, Dennis de Caires, London
Estelle Thompson, Tony Godfrey, London, Purdy Hicks Gallery; Frankfurt, Galerie Helmut Pabst
1995 The British Council Collection 1984-1994, Andrea Rose, The British Council
1993 Estelle Thompson Paintings, Paul Bonaventura & John Gillett, London, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
1992 New Hall Art Collection, Marina Vaizey, Griselda Pollock
1991 Estelle Thompson, Deborah Dean, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Estelle Thompson, Mel Gooding, London, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
1989 Estelle Thompson, Tony Godfrey, London, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mark Golder, Contemporary Abstract Prints, Pallant House Gallery magazine, July- October 2016
Mark Waugh, DACS Foundation Auction, DACS Foundation, 2015
Monty Adkins and Pip Dickens, Shibusa- Extracting Beauty, University of Huddersfield Press 2012
Tony Godfrey, Painting Today, Phaidon 2009
Estelle Thompson, Artist Estelle Thompson on Malevich, Tate Modern, Autumn 2009
Sam Steverlynck, l’apres modern, Art Review Issue 28, December 2008
Charles Danby, Estelle Thompson, Miser and Now Issue 8, January 2008
Michael Stubbs, Tipping Point, Turps Banana Issue 4, March 2008
Michael Archer, Estelle Thompson, Artforum International, March 2004
Pablo Lafuente, Art in the Making, Print Review, 2002
Steven Short, Secrets and Limes, Fabric, April 2002
Pryle Behrman, Proactive Print Dealing, Printmaking Today, Winter 2001
Clare Stewart, Making an Impression, Times, London, 31 March 2001
Heather Neil, Exhibition: New Art Gallery Walsall, Review, February 2000
Terry Grimley, No one’s feeling Blue at Walsall Art Gallery, Birmingham Post, February 2000
Blue: borrowed and new exhibition catalogue The New Art Gallery Walsall, February 2000
William Packer, New Home for a Gifted Collection Financial Times, 29 February 2000
Hugh Stoddart % for Art: Milton Keynes Theatre and Art Gallery Public Arts Journal, March 2000
Ria Higgins, The Art of SE1, Sunday Times Magazine, 7 May 2000
Robert Clark, Prada Goes Green, Guardian, April 2000
Richard Ingleby, Estelle Thompson, Independent, 1 April 2000
Paul Huxley, The TI Group Art Collection TIGAC Catalogue, 2000
Ron Hammick, Art for Art’s Sake, Observer, 11 April 1999
Louisa Buck, Estelle Thompson, Art Newspaper, November 1999
William Packer, Estelle Thompson, Financial Times, November 1999
Alistair Hicks, Estelle Thompson: Beyond the Edge, Antique Interiors International Issue 34, 1999
Susan Wilson, The Weather for Painting AN Visual Arts, March 1998
Tony Godfrey London and Manchester Recent Painting, Burlington Magazine, September 1998
Know thy friends, RA Magazine, Summer 1998
Simon Morley, Light as Surface, Contemporary Art Issue 15, Autumn/Winter 1997
Sandy Kitching, Contemporary British Art Shows, Vision, 1997
Andrew Lambirth, Purdy Hicks Profile, Galleries Magazine, May 1997
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