Jennet Thomas’ work emerged from the anarchistic, experimental culture of London's underground film and live art club scene in the 1990's, where she was a co founder of the Exploding Cinema Collective. Thomas' video narratives are absurd - using uncanny visual and verbal puns- mixing elements of the banal and the bizarre.
Her work began as spoken word performance with projections for a live audience, and developed into an idiosyncratic hybrid of filmic languages; experiments with sound design are combined with unusual collisions of narrative genres - her videos can look like a low budget T.V. news, childrens' drama, or performance art behavior, with precisely crafted experimental, cryptically critical, texts; she likes to explore unlikely methods of sense-making. Her narratives are often generated via dream-logic, inspired by odd corners of British culture, our relationship with science, television, and the problems of ‘truth.’ Her single screen work has screened extensively in the international Film festival arena, particularly in the US and Europe but has recently been showing more in galleries the UK. Recent shows include: ‘All Suffering Soon to End’ at Matt’s Gallery 2010, ‘Return of the Black Tower’ at PEER in 2007, with a forthcoming solo show at OUTPOST, Norwich in November 2010 and group show ‘The Life of the Mind’ at Walsall New Art Gallery in January 2011. She is currently .5 Senior Lecturer on Fine Art: BA Print and Time Based media at Wimbledon College of Art.
Fig 1. Preaching in Bathroom, Matt's Gallery 'ALL SUFFERING SOON TO END' 2010
Fig 2. Nun Raises Puppets, Matt's Gallery 'ALL SUFFERING SOON TO END' 2010
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