Thom Roberts

Thom Roberts makes art with a spirit of experimentation and spontaneity. His portfolio encompasses a range of media and styles including drawing, installation, painting, performance and photography. Roberts is a skilled draftsman, well able to quickly translate landscapes and portraits in a traditional and representational artistic style, yet his primary interest is in his contemporary painting and installation practice. His portraits of friends and families render them three-eyed and fanged, and his surreal performances and spoken-word poetry speak of trains, buildings, monsters and blue birds.

As an artist with a long-term love affair with the crowns of people’s heads, Thom Roberts will express his fascination for crowns through a combination of performance art and installation at Kandos’s own Cuts Colours N Curls hairdressing salon. For those out of the loop, your crown is located on the top of your head, it is often spiral shaped and is a central point from which hair grows. For Roberts, crowns are a magical landscape in which he identifies an array of creatures. Cementa17 guests are invited to offer their crowns for Roberts to read and interpret. This project is supported by Studio A, and by the Accessible Arts’ Delineate grant as a part of the Don’t DIS my ABILITY program. Performance: 11am-12midday and 3-4pm every day