Bob Thompson’s First European Exhibition
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Doris Press Feature on Bob Thompson: Measure of My Song
October 2025
Sam Cornish from Doris Press discusses the ‘ambitious and stimulating’ exhibition of Bob Thompson’s work at Maximillian William.
Seemingly painted at speed, the pictures show a knack for succinctly conveying physicality. Thompson’s figures appear simultaneously enmeshed in and on the cusp of breaking free from the natural landscapes they inhabit. Thompson recognises this dual status as a fundamental fact of imaginatively inhabiting a body: inseparably within our physical selves we nevertheless desire escape, with tragic or absurd consequences, as in Perseus’s tumble. Two lounging female figures in Abundance of the Four Elements seem to almost melt into their surroundings, while nearby two men are suspended against the dawn sky.
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