Judi Thomas

Never one to settle, the constant reinvention of herself by this eccentric South African born, Brighton artist and the attendant thrill of discovery, keeps her work fresh and unexpected.

She sold her first illustration at 15, and at 17, moved to Durban’s only mixed-race neighbourhood to become a full-time artist. Since then she has worked with a co-operative of hippy t-shirt painters and silk-screen hackers; decorated nightclubs; designed lingerie, textiles and fetish-wear. She has written and illustrated several children’s books and a novel. In 2007 she was shortlisted for the ‘MacMillan Illustrator for Africa’ prize.
She moved to Brighton in 2011, and has taken part in a number of group and solo exhibitions and runs regular live body-doodling and adult colouring in sessions. Collaborating with photographers, poets and musicians, as artist and muse, has pushed the boundaries of her work in exciting new directions.

artist in residence at Goldstone Gallery, Hove, UK and Art Schism Gallery, Brighton, UK