DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY - ELIZABETH THOMSON

ELIZABETH THOMSON ‘VOYAGE SAUVAGE’ 08.05. – 31.05.14

In May 2011, I was one of nine artists (eight New Zealand, one Australian) invited to voyage on the HMNZS Otago to the remote Kermadec region - a vast oceanic expanse, up the centre of which runs a seam of over fifty undersea volcanoes and a handful of islands. To the west of this volcanic chain lies the ten kilometre deep Kermadec Trench in the second deepest waters on the planet.

The region is of huge geological, oceanographic and scientific interest and the purpose of the trip was to raise public awareness of the Kermadec region and the dangers that threaten it. My experiences of that voyage and the special qualities of this still-pristine environment have subsequently had a profound impact on my practice.

For the past two decades, the islands and the 7450 square kilometres of sea surrounding them have been a protected New Zealand conservancy. During the last couple of years the international Pew Environment Group has been lobbying to expand the Kermadec marine reserve to 620,000 square kilometres, which would make it the largest ocean sanctuary in the world.

Fellow artist and shipmate, Gregory O’Brien wrote of our journey that “without any co-ordinates, landmarks or familiar objects, the artists found themselves cast adrift in a new kind of space – one that was at once overwhelming and full of imaginative potentialities”

When the HMNZS Otago hove to on the Tropic of Capricorn in the middle of this vast ocean, a call of “Hands to bathe” came over the loud speaker. Those intrepid enough to dive or leap from the upper deck, plunged into the open sea – 10,000 metres deep.

This crucial moment of mid-ocean immersion proved to be a creative epiphany for me. It was one of the defining experiences of the journey. When I put my head under the water, I opened my eyes to the most wonderful blue I have ever seen. Was I floating within, hovering over or submerged beneath? When I was floating in that blue, I just couldn’t stop smiling. It was a sublime experience. I was thinking about how I could spend a lifetime, exploring that astounding intensity of colour. Different tonal densities and colour fields, the light from above.

I felt so connected to the purity of the experience, primordial even, an extraordinary sense of weight and weightlessness, a sense of what the voyage was about, a connection to the fragility of our world, and the need to protect it. It felt like a blessing and an awakening.

In that numinous blue I did feel a part of something greater than myself – a small part of everything – an immersion of the senses.

Since then, I have wanted my work to be evocative of that memory – elusive – intensive, intangible, mysterious, elemental, virtual.

I want my work to be as a hole in the wall revealing the world beyond.

Voyage Sauvage – towards distant lands and brave possibilities swimming in the void …

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘Star map I’, 2014, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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‘Star map I’, 2014, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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‘Star map I’, 2014, (details) Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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‘Lavinia Region’, 2014, Glass spheres optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on contoured wood, 1120 mm x 1778 mm

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‘Lavinia Region’, 2014, Glass spheres optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on contoured wood, 1120 mm x 1778 mm

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‘Lavinia Region’, 2014, Glass spheres optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on contoured wood, 1120 mm x 1778 mm

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‘Delta’, 2009, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1500 mm

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‘Delta’, 2009, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1500 mm

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‘La Planète Sauvage, Terra Luna’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 1200mm diameter

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‘La Planète Sauvage, Terra Luna’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 1200mm diameter

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‘La Planète Sauvage, Terra Luna’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 1200mm diameter

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Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘The Ocean of Eden III’, 2012, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, polymeric vinyl, lacquer on wood panel, 1200mm x 1540mm x 30mm Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘The Ocean of Eden III’, 2012, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, polymeric vinyl, lacquer on wood panel, 1200mm x 1540mm x 30mm

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‘Voyage Sauvage I’, 2014, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood 640 mm x 920 mm

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‘Mon Voyage Sauvage’, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 640 mm x 955 mm

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‘Mon Voyage Sauvage’, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 640 mm x 955 mm

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‘The Greening of New Blueland’, 2014, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1630 mm

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‘The Greening of New Blueland’, 2014, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1630 mm

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‘Numinous Transitive Blue I’, 2014 ’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, lacquer, contoured wood panel, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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“The undulations on the surface of Thomson’s works (Numinous/Transitive Blue V) mimic the sea – pulsing and patterned – yet they are also the pores of human skin; they resemble the goose-bumps I have seen her works elicit from some viewers.”

Gregory O’Brien, Artist Profile Issue 27, 2014

‘Numinous Transitive Blue I’, 2014 ’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, lacquer, contoured wood panel, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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‘Solaris, Transitive States II’, 2013-2014, Cast vinyl film, lacquer, contoured wood panel, 1400 mm x 2020 mm

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‘Solaris, Transitive States II’, 2013-2014, Cast vinyl film, lacquer, contoured wood panel, 1400 mm x 2020 mm

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘New Blueland’, 2014, Glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, acrylic, cast vinyl film, lacquer on wood, 1120 mm x 1630 mm

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‘Transitive Blue’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, lacquer, contoured wood panel, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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‘Numinous Transitive Blue V’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, lacquer, contoured wood panel, 1120 mm x 1120 mm

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‘La Planète Sauvage # 4: Lavinia’, 2009, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 750mm diameter Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘La Planète Sauvage # 4: Lavinia’, 2009, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 750mm diameter Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘La Planète Sauvage: Mare Sirenum’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 450mm diameter Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘La Planète Sauvage: Mare Sirenum’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 450mm diameter Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

‘La Planète Sauvage: Mare Sirenum’, 2014, Cast vinyl film, epoxy resin, glass spheres, optically clear epoxy resin, lacquer and acrylic on convex wood disc, 450mm diameter, $8,000 Terms of sale of all works shown: 10% deposit on reservation. Balance on collection. Prices as of May 2014. All prices listed may change without notice. All prices include GST.

ELIZABETH THOMSON Born Auckland 1955 1988 Master of fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University Auckland Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Voyage Sauvage, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney Hanene: Breathing Gently, Elizabeth Thomson - Selected Works: 1993- 2014: PageBlackie Gallery, Wellington Elysian Fields: Pataka Art + Museum, Porirua, Wellington 2013 -2014 Transitive States: Pataka + Museum, Porirua, Wellington 2012 The Ocean of Eden: Two Rooms, Auckland Over and Above: Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North, and Hawke’s Bay Islands of Dodonaea: RH Gallery, Upper Moutere, Nelson 2011 Colour/ Field: Curated by Aaron Lister, City Gallery, Wellington 2010 Another Green World: Tauranga Art Gallery, toi tauranga, Bay of Plenty 2009 La Planète Sauvage: Two Rooms, Auckland Tonight in the Mystic Garden: Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay 2008 Astrophysics and the Thomson Effect: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Supposition: Two Rooms, Auckland Horoeka: rh art, Woollaston Estate, Upper Moutere, Nelson 2007 Studies for the Bigger Picture: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Relativity and the Fourth Dimension: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Elizabeth Thomson – my hi-fi my sci-fi: touring survey exhibition curated by Gregory O’Brien, City Gallery, Wellington; Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton; Te Tuhi – Centre for the Arts, Auckland; Rotorua Museum of Art and History; Dunedin Public Art Gallery 2006 Elizabeth Thomson – my hi-fi my sci-fi: major survey exhibition curated by Gregory O’Brien, City Gallery, Wellington Interference: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Mondo Tondo: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington A Night and a Day: Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown 2005 The Black and Whites: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Aerial: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington 2004 Love Me Tender: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Aviatrix: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland 2003 My Hi- Fi, My Sci -Fi: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Horoeka and Antequera, Observations on Home and Abroad: Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington 2002 Horoeka and Antequera: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland 1999/2000 Naenae Parterre, A Garden of Optics from the Intermillennium Series (1991-1996): Dowse Art Museum, Wellington 1997/98 Fringe of Heaven: Ten Year Survey: Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi Auckland 1997 Purple Parterre: Artis Gallery, Auckland Parterre: Brooker Gallery, Wellington

1996

1995 1994 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987

1986

Elizabeth Thomson Collected Works 1986-1996: Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre Waking up Slowly: Auckland Art Gallery From the Natural Abstraction Series 1991-1996: Fox Gallery, Auckland Sensillae: Jensen Gallery, Wellington.

Phantoms of the Night: Te Manawa; Museum, Gallery, Science Centre, Palmerston North The Winged and the Wingless: Fox Street Gallery, Auckland Denizens of the Deep: Window Installation, Auckland Art Gallery Manukau Heads: Lopdell House Gallery, Titirangi, Auckland The Winged and the Wingless: Catherine Scollay Gallery, Wellington The Fearless Five Hundred: Fox Gallery, Auckland Natural Aspects: George Fraser Gallery, Auckland Emerging Artists Series: Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth New Work, Etchings and Bronze: Southern Cross Gallery Wellington New Zealand Print Survey: City Gallery, Wellington Etchings: Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington

Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 Kermadec: Lines in the Ocean: Southland Museum & Art Gallery, Invercargill; Eastern Southland Art Gallery; Ashburton Art Gallery; Forrester Art Gallery Oamaru; Millennium Gallery, Blenheim.

2013 The Bold and the Beautiful: Two Rooms, Auckland 21st Century Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection: Adam Art Gallery, Te Pataka Toi, Wellington Kermadec: Art Across the Pacific: Museo de Artes Contemporáneo, MAC, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Kermadec: Lines in the Ocean: Hastings Art Gallery, Hawke’s Bay; Waikato Museum, Te Whare Taonga o Waikato, Hamilton; Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui; Hands to Bathe - Imagining a Kermadec Ocean Sactuary: Torpedo Bay Navy Museum, Devonport, Auckland Line/ Form /Colour /Intention: Page Blackie Gallery, Wellington 2012 Kermadec: Nine artists in the South Pacific: New Zealand High Commission, Nuku’alofa, Tonga Kermadec: Nueve artistas exploran el pacifico sur: Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Chile Kermadec: Nine artists explore the South Pacific: Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum, Auckland; City Gallery Wellington 2011/2012 Not Far From Home, Gretchen Albrecht and Elizabeth Thomson: Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, Central Otago 2011 Kermadec: Nine artists explore the South Pacific: curated by Gregory O’Brien and supported by the Global Ocean Legacy programme of the Pew Environment Group, Tauranga Art Gallery, toi tauranga, Bay of Plenty Mystic Garden - Elizabeth Thomson and Megan Jenkinson: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Call Waiting – A celebration of the New Gallery 1995 - 2011: curated by Alexa Johnston, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland 2010 May- Elizabeth Thomson, John Reynolds, Darren George: rh art, Woollaston Estate, Upper Moutere, Nelson Islandsong: Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, Central Otago 2009 2+2 - A Dialogue - Geoff Thornley, Elizabeth Thomson: Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington Fixated: Photography Through History, Puke Ariki, New Plymouth, Taranaki 2008- 2009 He Korowai o te Wai, The Mantle of Water: Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa

2008 Cross Talk: Two Rooms, Auckland The Real Art Road Show, Mahana Gallery, Waikanae, KapiB Coast Thomson Westra Pardington: Nadene Milne Gallery, Arrowtown, Central Otago 2007 Significant Other: Diptych works by Gretchen Albrecht, Geoff Thornley and Elizabeth Thomson, Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington 2004 Landscape, 7 NZ Artists: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Opening Exhibition: Centre of Contemporary Art, Cairns, North Queensland, Australia Project 04 Contemporary New Zealand Sculpture: Webb’s, Auckland 2002/2003 Conversation Pieces, Collaborative Works: Michael Hirschfeld Gallery, City Gallery, Wellington 2002 Red, Black, White: Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland Recent Contemporary Acquisitions: New Gallery, Auckland Art Gallery, Toi o Tamaki, Auckland Botanica: Gus Fisher Gallery, The University of Auckland, Auckland 2001 Botanica: Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington 1997 A Commonwealth of Art: Traditions, Imagination and Independent Nations: National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur Elizabeth Thomson, Gerda Leenards: Wellington Maritime Museum 1994 Elizabeth Thomson and Anne Noble: Janne Land Gallery, Wellington The Nature of Things, Contemporary Still Life: Artis Gallery, Auckland Barbeque at the Corral, ASA Gallery, Auckland 1993 X7 Artists Multiples: ASA Gallery, Auckland 1992 Sacred Way: City Gallery, Wellington Distance Looks Our Way: City Gallery, Wellington Distance Looks Our Way: Auckland Art Gallery Distance Looks Our Way: Stelling Gallery, Leiden, Holland Distance Looks Our Way: International Pavilion, Fabellon de las Arte, Expo, Seville, Spain 1990 Distance Looks Our Way: Sarjeant Gallery, Whanganui Home Made Home: City Gallery, Wellington Heart + Land: Contemporary Works on Paper from Aotearoa, New Zealand: New Zealand, Art Directors Council (toured regional galleries, Australia) Made in Metal: Touring 10 Women Sculptors Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton, Te Manawa Art Gallery, Hawke’s Bay Art Gallery & Museum, Napier Print Exponents: Travelling exhibition of Contemporary NZ Prints, ASA Gallery, Auckland, CSA Gallery Christchurch, Dunedin Public Art Gallery Review 90 – Survey of recent works by Auckland artists: te Tuhi, the mark (formerly the Fisher Gallery), Auckland 1988 Fact and Desire: Real Pictures, Auckland Photographs and Extensions of the Photograph: (with Fiona Pardington and Marie Shannon) Southern Cross Gallery, Wellington.

Contemporary New Zealand Art from the Permanent Collection of the Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland Fremantle Print Award Exhibition: Fremantle, Western Australia 1987 Seven Artists: Roz MacAllan Gallery, Brisbane Young Contemporaries Exhibition: CSA Gallery, Christchurch Elizabeth Thomson: 1987 Print Series: City Gallery Wellington New Zealand Print Survey: City Gallery Wellington

1986 1983

Ninth International Print Biennale: Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England, Victoria and Albert Museum, London New Energy in Bronze: Denis Cohn Gallery, Auckland

Selected Commissions 2013 Flight Test, North by Northwest:, Tappenden Holdings, Auckland 2012 Hanene: window work, 150 Oriental Parade, Wellington 2010 Lady North Star Parterre: Tauranga Art Gallery, toi tauranga, Bay of Plenty 2008 The Alpine Club, Queenstown Aquatic Centre, Queenstown 2003 Big Wavy Gravy: The Matterhorn, Wellington 2002 Sonic Panorama: The University of Auckland, Auckland 1999-2000 First Forest, Elusive Matter – from the Intermillennium Series: The Vero Building, Auckland 1999 Otari Rosetta: Metropolis, Auckland 1996 The Spiny Way: Holmes Consulting Group, Auckland 1995-1996 Batocera Longhorns and Goliath: Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston Nort 1992-1993 the Photic Zone and Beyond: Kermadec Restaurant, Auckland 1991 Cannibal Flies: Milford Sound Launch Terminal 1989 The Fearless Five Hundred: KPMG Centre, Auckland

Selected Collections New Zealand Museum Collections: Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand, Wellington Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland The Dowse Art Museum, Wellington Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth Te Manawa Art Gallery, Palmerston North International Collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, London Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Logan College, Queensland, Australia New Zealand Arts Trust Collections: James Wallace Trust Chapman Tripp The Rutherford Trust Collection International Corporate Collections: Johnson's Wax Collection, USA

Selected Bibliography Amery, Mark, Poetic and powerful art, Culture, The Dominion Post, Wellington, 27 November, 2013 —; Elizabeth Thomson, My Hi Fi My Sci Fi, Dominion Post, 21 July 2006 —; Elizabeth Thomson, My Hi Fi My Sci Fi, The Lumière Reader, 11 August 2006 www.lumiere.net.nz/reader/item/633-49k —; My artist, my friend, The Dominion Post, 21 May 2004, p. B10 —; Going Public, Visual Art. Dominion Post, 27 June 2003 Brown, Warwick, One Hundred New Zealand Artists, Auckland: Godwit Publishing, 1996 Cardy, Tom; Artist turning over a new leaf, Dominion Post, 27 June 2003 Caughey, Elizabeth (ed.), ‘Elizabeth Thomson’, Contemporary New Zealand Artists 4, Auckland: David Bateman, 2005, pp.64-66 Clement, Shelly, ‘Aerial perspective’, Urbis Landscapes 8, May/July 2006, pp.26-30 Corner, Katy, ‘Wellington’, Art News, Summer 2005, p.27 —; New Zealand Review - Sense on High Alert, Elizabeth Thomson, AAR Australian Art Review, Issue 12. 2006 Dunn, Michael, ‘New Zealand Sculpture: A History’, Auckland: Auckland University Press 2002 Foster, Bruce: Kermadec Log, http://video.com/37186027 —; Kermadec: Reflections on a voyage – Elizabeth Thomson on Vimeo. vimeo.com/33616083‎ Dec 13, 2011 Interview with sculptor/installation artist Elizabeth Thomson about her voyage to the Kermadec Islands Foster, Susan, ‘Wellington’, Art New Zealand 44, Spring 1987, pp.49-50 Garrett, Louise, ‘Wellington’, Art New Zealand 83, Winter 1997, p.35 Golder, Bronwen & O’Brien, Gregory, Kermadec: Nine artists Explore the South Pacific, hardback 150pgs pub Pew Environment Group, 2011 ; —; Encounters, (publication reporting on nine artists voyage to the Kermadecs on the HMNZS Otago), Global Ocean Legacy - Kermadec Initiative, 2011 —; Kermadec: Nine Artists in the South Pacific, (publication presenting travelling exhibition to Tongan audiences), 2012 —; Kermadec from Rangitahua to Rapa Nui, (publication) 2012 —; Nueve artistas exploran el pacific sur, (publication for Rapa Nui audience), 2012 —; The Kermadec artists, (publication for Rapa Nui audience), 2012 —; Wakey Wakey Wakey ( Kermadec - Art Across the Pacific), (publication for Chilean audience), 2013 Harvey, Ruth; The Dynamics of Difference: Photography’s influence on the work of Elizabeth Thomson, Art New Zealand 124, Spring 2007, pp.50-53 —; Immersion: A conversation with Elizabeth Thomson, Art New Zealand 143, Winter 2012, pp.30-38 Lister, Aaron; Colour/ Field (exhibition publication), City Gallery, Wellington 2011 McIntosh, Jill (ed.), Contemporary New Zealand Prints, Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press, Wellington, 1989 McNamara, T. J.; Visual Arts, New Zealand Herald, 17 May 2006 —; Visual Arts, New Zealand Herald, 18 August 2004 —; Beauty of the Commonplace, New Zealand Herald, 17 July 2003 —; From the Scant to the Generous, New Zealand Herald, 30 September 2002 Miles, Anna, ‘Elizabeth Thomson: Collected Works 1986 - 1996’ (exhibition notes), Hastings: Hawke’s Bay Exhibition Centre, 1996 —, ‘Waking up Slowly’ (exhibition notes), Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery, 1996 Ninth British International Print Biennale’ Bradford, England: Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, 1986

O’Brien, Gregory (ed.), ‘Elizabeth Thomson – my hi-fi my sci-fi’, Wellington: City Gallery Wellington, 2006 —, To the Island— artists in the Kermadec: Artist Profile, Australia, August 2011 —, ‘Elizabeth Thomson, The Ocean of Eden-The Kermadecs and beyond ‘(exhibition publication) Two Rooms and Elizabeth Thomson, 2012 Pataka Art +Museum, ‘Transitive States – Elizabeth Thomson ‘, (exhibition publication) July 2013 Paton, Justin, ‘Hushed, frail and uncannily serene’, The New Zealand Herald, 17 September 1996 —, Rogue Mutations, New Zealand Listener, 14 February 1998, pp.42-43 Phipps, Jennifer & Linda Tyler, Heart + Land: Contemporary Works on Paper from Aotearoa New Zealand Wellington: New Zealand Art Gallery Directors Council, 1980 Stenhart, Josie; My Hi Fi My Sci Fi, Magneto, Massey University Magazine, Wellington, 2006 Stewart, Keith, Creative tension derived through visual paradox, Sunday Star Times, 14 December 1997 —, Heaven reveals artist’s world, Sunday Star Times, 1 February 1998, p.5 Bridget Sutherland, The Fearless Five Hundred: The World of Elizabeth Thomson, Art New Zealand 57, Summer 1990-91, pp.54-57 —, Elizabeth Thomson, The Owl, the Ghost and the Moon, Distance Looks Our Way: 10 Artists from New Zealand, Mary Barr (ed.), Wellington: Distance Looks Our WayTrust, 1992, pp.103-109 Trevelyan, Jill, The Big Book of Essays, Real art Road Show, silver, pp .56, 2007 Webb Galleries, Peter; Project 04 Contemporary NZ Sculpture, Catalogue, Auckland 2004 Wedde, Ian, ‘Prints That Buckle’, Evening Post, 11 November 1987 —, ‘Nature’s Volume, Elizabeth Thomson and the organisation of the world’, New Zealand Listener, 17 June 2006, pp.38-40 —, He Korowai o te Wai, The Mantle of Water: Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Te Whare Taonga o Te Arawa, 2007 Were, Virginia, ‘Into the Wild’, Art News New Zealand, Winter 2003, pp.54-57 -—, Shifting Truth - Artist Profile, Art News New Zealand, Summer 1998, p.21 -—, When One is Not Enough, Art News New Zealand, Summer 2006