Originally a painter (studied in Hamburg and at the Royal College of Art, London) and after a detour into sculptural ceramics Thomas Gosebruch now works on paper. He describes his way of working as: ‘all about accepting and rejecting, after, while and before the hand touches the paper. About watching the impact on the whole - of the mark just made. Steering it and letting it loose again. Surprise provoked and enjoyed’.
The drawn line as a record of decisions taken and the piece of paper as a stage on which play and pleasure, surprise and discovery can be observed in their exchanges with risk, contradiction, destruction, dread. Immediacy colluding with detachment.