Peter Thomas

Fox Galleries is proud to present Peter Thomas’ Grey Literature, a collection of action paintings that manipulate and disrupt surfaces of canvas and industrial felt. The Boardroom is the perfect environment for Thomas’ bureaucratic meanderings, staged in an organisational meeting place. Exquisite mixed media works, (or ‘discussion papers) shimmering with built up texture; each piece is approached by Peter Thomas with a different apparatus to reveal a systemised and chaotic tension in the surface facade, leaving the trace of human conjecture. The year of 2020 shifted work and life blending, the wrangle to initiate interventions of continuous time by various schemes and demacations. Grey Literature goes beyond its own systems and transgresses its limits, the author has disappeared and there is a delightful glimpse into a convoluted world where the ‘paper trail’ has its own authority.

“Grey Literature refers to various bureaucratic forms of communication such as ‘green papers’, ‘white papers’, and ‘discussion papers’ utilised by government, business and other large organisations. While often obtuse, clouded and presented in a way where any meaning is only obvious to the author, this grey literature can communicate an underlying intention and research behind the bureaucratese it is often written in. These works are some of my own grey literature from the last 5 years – obtuse and with a meaning only obvious to me. Hopefully though, the clues I leave are sufficient to point a viewer toward my concerns with material, surface, human frailty and organisational structures.”