Patrick Thomas (GB)
Low-Tech Editions: Field Notes
9 août – 15 août 2026
Patrick Thomas United Kingdom
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.
www.patrickthomasstudio.com
L’atelier
Publishing has long served as a way to document places, observations, and fleeting situations. At Boisbuchet, where landscape and daily life offer a constant source of stimuli, printed matter becomes a tool for recording and translating these experiences into physical form.
In this workshop, participants will explore the relationship between observation and publication. Working within a walking radius of the Domaine, they will collect material from the site: notes, sketches, recordings, and other forms of field documentation. These observations will become the starting point for a series of small printed publications.
Each participant will produce an edition of at least three publications, developed through a combination of analogue reproduction techniques. Processes may include MiScreen™ silkscreen, cameraless photography, direct exposure, carbon transfer, Tetrapak intaglio, contact printing, kitchen lithography, and photogenic drawing. Participants are encouraged to adopt a fully analogue approach, allowing the physical properties of materials and processes to guide the outcome.
Patrick Thomas will provide a MiScreen™ kit together with the basic materials needed to realise these techniques. MiScreen™ is a compact and environmentally conscious screen-making system that eliminates the need for emulsion, water, chemicals, or darkroom facilities. Through experimentation with these processes, participants will explore how observation, image-making, and printing can come together to form small editions connected to a specific place and moment.