Thomas Trum
‘It’s so big you have to take a distance!’
Thomas Trum works at the intersection of art and design. His approach is abstract and analytical, experimenting with different painting techniques and surfaces. He uses, for example, enlarged felt-tip pens and a machine originally designed for marking roads. The monochrome abstract works are made up of single lines. The combination of the line and its technical feasibility are the base of his work. To Trum it is effort over difficulty, when it comes to creating an image. He likes the idea that the works seem to make themselves and at the same time convey a physical experience. For Unfair™, Thomas used the largest possible felt-tip pen, so large that you can only read the work from a considerable (and safe) distance.
Background
Thomas Trum (1989) lives and works in s’-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. He graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014. His works have been shown at a variety of galleries and museums like Het Nieuw Instituut, Art Rotterdam and Het Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch. In 2018 Trum won The Loyens & Loeff Emerging Artist Award, which was given to the most promising presentation at Unfair18.
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Thomas Trum – Onepurpleline (2019)
Available works by Thomas Trum
Two purple lines 13 (2020)

Two orange lines by two orange lines (2020)

Two blue lines 11 (2019)

Onepurpleline (2019)

Colourchangingline 09 (2019)
Photo by Thomas Trum

Onegreenline 6 (2018)
Gouache on paper
106,5 x 80 cm
Photo by Thomas Trum

Onepinkline 11 (2019)
250 x 190 cm
Photo by Thomas Trum

Speedbump painting 1.3 (2018)
100 x 70 cm
Photos by Thomas Trum, Mini Galerie


Onepurpleline 8 (sketch of Onepurpleline 6) (2019)
104 x 80 cm
In collection of Noordbrabants Museum

Twoorangelines (2018)
Acryl and glycerine
15 x 2 m
Photos by Ronald Smits

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Twopurplelines (2019)
Acryl and glycerine
417 x 355 cm
Photo by Jhoeko
