Dom Theobald makes paintings, prints and mixed media-works.
His colourful, semi-abstracted images derive from a variety of sources including
cartoon forms, music and plant structures. He has exhibited widely in this
country, as well as in Europe and the USA. He trained at Norwich School of
Art and the SLade. He is currently represented by Cosa Gallery.
Artist’s Statement
The work comes from literally anywhere. I use photographs,
films, ideas, objects and music to initiate images. Recently cartoon forms, bones,
documentary photographs, whales, shoes, wheels and botanical drawings have all
proved useful as elements.
At times there are clear distinctions between objects and ‘background’. I like
to think of the distinct forms as ‘stones’ and the surrounding areas as ‘nets’
in which they have been caught or dredged. This in turn refers to the sifting
and selection process which is a combination of memory and the activity of painting.
In some paintings forms echo each other, almost repeating themselves. A bone
can resemble a blade or a dragonfly wing. A missile‘s vapour trail, a petal or
ice-cream cone. The forms can even become a series of pulsations, each fashioned
or synthesised from the last.
At school I was interested primarily in Biology and Art. Biology was filled with
microscopic forms that often seemed more compelling than the chairs and corkscrews
I was drawing in Art. I would spend hours drawing these forms in great detail.
I still refer to these drawings for occasional source material. I was also left
with an awareness that we concentrate on particular modes of form and scale in
our communications with each other, and that we are surrounded by so many other
possibilities.
| Higher Education | |
| 1987-88 | Camberwell School of Art. |
| 1988-9 | Norwich School of Art. BA Hons (1st Class) Fine Art. |
| 1991-93 | Slade School of Art. Higher Diploma in Fine Art. |
| 2000-01 | Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Anglia Polytechnic University |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 1989 | ‘Multiple Art’, Hamburg |
| 1990 | Kunsthochfachschule, Kiel |
| 1990 | Kulturministerium, Kiel |
| 1990 | ‘Fresh Art’, Business Design Centre, London |
| 1991 | ‘Print Europe’, Barbican, London |
| 1991 | Bankside Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Amadora Print Biennale, Portugal |
| 1992 | ‘Painting Today’, Bonhams, London |
| 1992 | National Theatre, London |
| 1992 | Casa das Artes, Tavira, Portugal |
| 1992 | Mall Galleries, London |
| 1992 | Pike Gallery, London |
| 1993 | London Print Workshop |
| 1993 | Nevill Gallery, Canterbury |
| 1994 | Northcote Gallery, London |
| 1995 | Laing Painting Competition, London |
| 1995 | Schoolhouse Gallery, Norfolk |
| 1995 | Coombs Contemporary, London |
| 1996 | Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk |
| 1997 | Laing Painting Competition, London |
| 1997/8/9 | Duncan Terrace, London |
| 1997 | Konstakuten Gallery, Stockholm |
| 1997 | Yokohama Print Biennale, Japan |
| 1997 | Lime Gallery, California |
| 1998 | Lynne Cohennan Gallery, California |
| 2000-4 | Duncan Terrace Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Bury St.Edmunds Art Gallery |
| 2004 | Salthouse 04, Norfolk |
| 2005 | Norwich Castle Open Art Show |
| 2005 | Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk |
| 2005 | Duncan Terrace Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London |
| 2006 | Cosa Gallery, London |
| 2006 | London Art Fair |
| 2006 | Art London |
| 2006 | ‘Off’, Norfolk |
| 2006 | Norwich Fringe Festival, Norfolk |
| 2006 | Duncan Terrace Gallery, London |
| 2007 | Stephen Walton Fine Art, Bury St.Edmunds |
Solo Exhibitions |
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| 1999 | Talent Search Gallery, California |
| 2001 | Rivermead Gallery, Chelmsford |
| 2006 | The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk |
| 2007 | Outpost Gallery, Norfolk |
| 2007 | Bungay Fisher Theatre, Suffolk |
| 2007 | Ferini Gallery, Suffok |
| 2008 | Cosa Gallery, London |
| 2008 | Wembley Point, London |
| 2008 | Salthouse 08, Norfolk |
| 2009 | Salthouse 09, Norfolk |
| 2010 | ‘Quiet Voices’, Tate Britain |
Awards |
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| 1989 | Erasmus Travel Bursary |
| 1990 | McColl Arts Travel Award |
| 1991 | Artichoke Print Prize |
| 1993 | Laing Painting Commendation |
| 1998 | Arts Council Funding for Training in Acrylic-Resist Etching |