Originally a painter, Thomas Goesbruch studied in Hamburg and at the Royal College of Art, London, and after a detour into sculptural ceramics he now works on paper.
He taught in Nigeria and in China and for 21 years at The National Gallery and City Lit. 2023 winner of both the Woolwich Contemporary Printmaking Prize and thePrintmakers Prize.
Thomas sees the piece of paper as the stage where decisions are acted out, with the line as performer. Play, surprise, pleasure and reflection are on show in their exchanges with risk, contradiction, destruction, dread. Immediacy colluding with detachment.
Originally a painter, Thomas Goesbruch studied in Hamburg and at the Royal College of Art, London, and after a detour into sculptural ceramics he now works on paper.
He taught in Nigeria and in China and for 21 years at The National Gallery and City Lit. 2023 winner of both the Woolwich Contemporary Printmaking Prize and thePrintmakers Prize.
Thomas sees the piece of paper as the stage where decisions are acted out, with the line as performer. Play, surprise, pleasure and reflection are on show in their exchanges with risk, contradiction, destruction, dread. Immediacy colluding with detachment.