Laura Thomas Art
Artist
Escape to nostalgic environments in an expressive world of shape and colour.
Laura Thomas is a Melbourne-based contemporary artist whose vibrant paintings explore the emotional life of everyday things.
Through bold colour, playful forms and expressive mark-making, she transforms still life, interiors and familiar objects into imagined worlds shaped by nostalgia, memory and human connection. Her work draws on the rituals of everyday life; gathering, celebrating, collecting and the objects we surround ourselves with finding beauty and meaning in the ordinary.
Blurring the boundaries between observation and imagination, Thomas creates paintings that feel at once familiar and slightly surreal, inviting viewers to see everyday life in a different light.
Exhibitions & Media
Bowie, The Bowie Gallery 2024
Life Distilled, Fenton & Fenton May 2023
Modern Tables, Bluethumb April 2023
Escape Exhibition The ARX London February 2023
Summer Exhibition, Fenton & Fenton February 2023
Burn Side gallery December 2022
Christmas Guide, Fenton & Fenton December 2022
Paired, Side Gallery July 2022
Opening Exhibition, Verandah Studio April 2022
Mother's Day Ex, Fenton & Fenton March 2022
F*CK Covid, Fenton & Fenton December 2021
Peace of Art Auction, Fenton & Fenton 2021
Spring Show, Fenton & Fenton September 2021
IIDLEWILD, The Side Gallery, September 2020
Feel Good, Fenton & Fenton August 2020
Back to Now, No Vacancy, June 2020
Back to Now, No Vacancy, June 2020
IWD Exhibition, Who Gallery, March 2020
Publications
Origin Magazine, Dec/Jan 23
The Age Domain, May 2022
The Design Files, May 2022
Sitchu Melbourne, October 2021
Grand Design, December 2020
Collaborations
Gorman X Laura Thomas 2026/2027
Bambi Mini Swimwear collection 2024/2025
Kate Ford X Laura Thomas Pallais Collection 2023
Journey of Something Paint by Numbers 2021
Awards
Finalist/ Bluethumb Art Prize 2021
Rising Star Finalist /Fenton and Fenton 2020
Rising Star/ Bluethumb Top 10 Rising stars of 2021
Fine Art Degree (BA HONS) / Exeter - 2012
