(1936 - 2016)
Born in 1936, Thompson has exhibited internationally since the 1960’s and is represented in major collections including Tate. In addition to his work as a painter he has been a uniquely influential educationalist, curator and writer. Responsible, as Dean of Fine Art, for the development of Goldsmiths College as the hotbed of new talent in this country and afterwards Head of Fine Art at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, Thompson was also curator of many important exhibitions, including Falls the Shadow (1986, with Barry Barker) and Gravity and Grace (1993) at the Hayward Gallery. He curated the exhibition Inner Worlds Outside (2006) at the Whitechapel Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Thompson is also author of numerous artist monographs and other texts and essays, many of which are published in ‘The Collected Writings of Jon Thompson’, (Ridinghouse, 2011).
