Jonathan Thompson
Figuratively Speaking 11 Oct - 4 Nov 2025
Jonathan Thompson
Jonathan Thompson is a Melbourne-based artist with over 35 years of creative practice. A prolific maker with a lived experience of disability, Jonathan brings a distinctive and powerful perspective to the human form, exploring themes of connection, identity, and emotion through expressive, hand-built sculpture.
Working instinctively and with immediacy, he creates intricate sculptures that capture fleeting moments of intimacy and movement. Using humble, everyday materials—masking tape, aluminium foil, wooden skewers—he constructs figures that radiate a raw, spontaneous vitality. These ephemeral forms are then cast in bronze, aluminium or concrete, preserving their delicate energy while transforming them into enduring objects with richly textured surfaces and nuanced patinas.
At the heart of Jonathan’s practice is a clear vision: to share his work more broadly and to see greater representation of artists with disabilities in galleries, public spaces, and the wider arts community. Jonathan’s work has been exhibited widely and is held in private collections across Australia.
He has collaborated on major public art commissions in Melbourne and Sydney with sculptor Mark Cuthbertson. In 2022, he was a finalist in the Tom Bass Sculpture Prize, and he is currently represented by & Gallery in Sorrento.
Sales:
Julie Collins - Director gallery@djprojects.net
0417324 795
Free Delivery and Installation within Victoria
Shipping arranged interstate and Overseas.
21 Morce Ave Sorrento, Victoria, Australia
www.andgalleryaustralia.net & Gallery is part of the djprojects family of art related businesses. www.djprojects.net
Masking tape & paper
400 x 300 x 150mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
1. Evil Less
Aluminium & steel 1/5
550 x 500 x 380mm
$4,200
2. The Surfer
500
$2,000
3. Leaning Man
Bronze & wood 1/5
x 250 x 150mm
4. The Guardian Large Bronze 1/5
750 x 190 x 190mm
$3,500
5. Standing Man
Bronze 1/5
470 x 300 x 140mm
$2,000
Bronze
80 x 345 x 215mm
$3,000 pair
6. Lizards
& wood 1/5
7. Muscle Bunny Bronze 3/5
960 x 420 x 260mm
$5,000
8. Just Chilling 2
Bronze 1/5
130 x 180 x 125mm
$1,500
9. Just Chilling 1
Bronze & wood 1/5
120 x 190 x 90mm
$1,500
10. The Gathering 5
Bronze 1/5
430 x 210 x 150mm
$3,000
11. The Gathering 1
Bronze 1/5
380 x 150 x 150mm
$3,000
12. The Gathering 3
Bronze 1/5
420 x 165 x 150mm
$3,000
13. Tortured Self
Bronze 1/5
425 x 200 x 110mm
$3,000
14. The Gathering 2
Bronze 1/5
450 x 165 x 150mm
$3,000
$1,800
15. Owl 2
Aluminium 1/5
205 x 95 x 100mm
$1,800
16. Owl 1
Aluminium 1/5
230 x 95 x 100mm
425
$1,400
17. The Guardian- Small Bronze 1/5
x 1230 x 130mm
18. Traveller 1
370
$1,800
Aluminium & wood 1/5
x 170 x 95mm
19. Traveller 2
300 x 95 x 95mm
$1,500
Aluminium & wood 1/5
20. Travellers Friend
Aluminuim and wood 1/5
240 x 95 x 160mm
$1,500
Aluminium & steel 1/5
730 x 380 x 450mm
$4,500
21. Dancing Bunny
Masking tape & paper
250 x 300 x 80mm
$ 180
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
23. Greeter
24. Curly
Masking tape & paper
190 x 170 x 100mm
$ 180
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
25. He-Bunny
Masking tape & paper
1000 x 300 x 150mm
$ 800
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
26. Long Arms
Masking tape & paper
600 x 450 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
Masking tape & paper
580 x 120 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
27. The HArmless 4
Masking tape & paper
430 x 100 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
28. The HArmless 2
29. Long Legs
Masking tape & paper
560 x 170 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
30. Lunger
Masking tape & paper
200 x 180 x 40mm
$ 180
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
31. Big Hands
Masking tape & paper
600 x 650 x 100mm
$ 660
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
Masking tape & paper
230 x 160 x 60mm
$ 330
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
32. Octopus Spider
Masking tape & paper
580 x 540 x 70mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
33. Flat Man
Masking tape & paper
500 x 100 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
34. The HArmless 3
Masking tape & paper
900 x 600 x 200mm
$ 800
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
35. Long Ear Bunny
Masking tape & paper
450 x 240 x 150mm
$ 330
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
36. Reacher
Masking tape & paper
450 x 110 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
37. The HArmless 1
38. The HArmless 5
Masking tape & paper
540 x 100 x 100mm
$ 500
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
Masking tape & paper
450 x 100 x 100mm
$ 330
Also available on commision cast in aluminium or bronze.
39. Rufus
380 x 160 x 130mm
$ 330
Also available on commision cast cast in aluminium or bronze.
40. Zombie Masking tape & paper