Ms Andrea Thoma

Lecturer

D.N.S.E.P. (Montpellier, France)

t: 0113 343 6922
e: a.thoma@leeds.ac.uk

Biography

Ms Thoma is a Lecturer in the area of Contemporary Art Practice. She holds a postgraduate degree (Diplôme National Supérieur d’Expression Plastique) and has been awarded a fellowship as visiting scholar by the University of Minnesota (1988-89). She has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Minnesota, at Northern Illinois University and at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. As a member of LAND2 she is involved in contributing to this research network of artists/lecturers and research students with an interest in landscape/place-oriented art practice.

Teaching

Electives

• Drawing 1A
• Study abroad advisor for area of contemporary art practice

Research Interests

Ms Thoma’s research interests are concerned with notions of place, identity and dwelling in a contemporary art context. She examines through painting, photography and video how the everyday allows for philosophical considerations regarding our being in the world. She is particularly interested in the juxtaposition of diverse media to reflect on aspects of image making. The phenomenological aspect of perception and its partaking in the cognitive process are a main driving force in the collation of visual material.

Over the past two decades she has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe and the United States. Exhibitions include Provenienzen des Lichts at Inselgalerie Berlin (2007), So near so far/ So nahe so fern at the Kunstverein Ebersberg, Germany (2007), Land2 beyond landscape? at the RWA in Bristol (2005), That which is near/ Das was nahe ist at the Representation of Baden-Württemberg at the EU in Bruxelles and at Only Atelier, Vienna (2004) and Skylight Stillnight at Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University (2004).

Publications

• Thoma, A. (2007) Lichtlinien Lines of Light. Berliner Fraueninitiative Xanthippe e.V., Berlin. ISBN 978-3-9811523-0-2
• Thoma, A. (2006) The making of 'place' to enable memory. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 5(1+2), pp.83-93. ISSN 1470-2029
• Gardner, D.; Hauck, A.; Thoma, A. (2005) That which is near Das was nahe ist. PRESS Public Relations Exclusive Schlick, Stuttgart. ISBN 3-00-016078-7
• Thoma, A.; Zoltners, M. (2003) Skylight Stillnight. Dean Clough Galleries in association with Northern Illinois University. ISBN 0-9529-24005
• Lyon, J ; Thoma, A.  (2000) Dialogue in Place. Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, USA, p.32. ISBN 1900857650