Patrick Thomas

Patrick Thomas (1965 Liverpool, UK) is a graphic artist, author and educator. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London before relocating to Barcelona in 1991 where he founded the multidisciplinary studio laVista. In 2005 he published Black & White, a compilation of his work for the international Press. In 2011 Laurence King Publishing, London, published his second book Protest Stencil Toolkit. A revised edition was released in April 2019.

In 2007 he set up his first silkscreen press in Barcelona and decided to concentrate on self-initiated work. Since then, he has exhibited his limited-editions across five continents, where many are now held in private and public collections. He set up a second silkscreen press in Berlin in 2016.

In April 2018 he was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 FrontRow about his public installation Breaking News 1.0 in Liverpool. The project has since been shown across Europe. He has given talks about his practice and held workshops worldwide, extensively in the UK, Spain and Germany. Since October 2013 he has been a professor of visual communication at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art andDesign.

Since 2011 he has been based in Berlin. He works between London, Barcelona and Stuttgart. He is a UK member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale). In Spring 2019 he was invited for a residency at Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo, the German Academy in Rome. In January 2020 his artwork for The Berliner Philharmoniker was shortlisted for a Grammy. In 2022 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Birmingham City University.