Originally from Brisbane (capital of Queensland, in the north-east of Australia), Ann Thomson has occupied, for almost a quarter of a century, an eminent place in Western Australian art.
Illustrating the abstract movement of this school, his works attract the eye by the way in which, whatever the format used, the artist makes the pictorial material express the power and energy that it conceals within it.
Conceived above all as a revelation of latent forces, his painting is however not cut off from History or Time, as evidenced by "CR-7" where letters and numbers recall the lettering of bales of wool resulting from shearing sheep. Australians.