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The Thompson Gallery

Address:

Melville, 2092 Johannesburg

Telephone:

011 4822039

Description

The Thompson Gallery is situated in the heart of Melville, occupying a turn of the century converted home. The gallery overlooks the stone-age Melville koppies, constantly reminding one of the beginnings of artistic creativity in Africa. We strive to create a friendly, intimate atmosphere, welcoming visitors with coffee and enthusiastic response to your interest in art.

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Company description

The Gallery aims to expand art audiences within South Africa. We host vibrant and conceptually stimulating exhibitions by both emerging as well as award-winning, established South African artists. We are interested not so much in production ware but in individual pieces and we like work which is strong and meaningful and, often socially orientated. The gallery is very interested in rural artists such as Lucky Makamo and Thomas Kubai and the hugely talented Justice Mugwena from Mapumalanga but also in conceptual art , printmaking and ceramics We also like to see some of the applied arts extended and used at new levels. The Gallery (opened originally in 1993 by Sally Thompson) has exhibited a variety of artists such as Erika Hibbert, Christine Dixie, Gabriel Clarke Browne, Jenny Stadler. Many of our artists have gone on to take the contemporary art scene by storm becoming leading names in South African art.
In our dynamic society the art scene has changed, it is continually evolving and making life exciting. Art is very much about this change as well as national and personal identity thus art is hugely important to a country like South Africa which is undergoing such rapid change. This has been a major reason for Sally reopening the gallery. During the intervening period the Gallery was rented out to Gordon Froud of Gordart who has done so much for art and young up and coming artists (which he continues to do in the Gordart gallery just two houses away making a trip to view art in Melville really worthwhile.
The Thompson Gallery is finding a new place for itself in a city with burgeoning art galleries. It is a different world from the one in which it operated before both socially and technologically which promised to be both exciting and challenging in our business of building up new names in the art world.

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