Image: Thom Buchanan, image courtesy the artist.
Thom Buchanan: Brown Falconer Artist in Residence
Exhibition:
1 May – 26 September 2025
Brown Falconer, 28 Chesser St, Adelaide 5000
Guildhouse and Brown Falconer Architects celebrate South Australian multidisciplinary artist Thom Buchanan as the inaugural Brown Falconer Artist in Residence. Supporting expanded cross-disciplinary practices through meaningful exchange with the studio showcasing a foyer display during History Festival and special Finnissage event, presenting new works by the inaugurual recipient.
Presented in partnership by Guildhouse and Brown Falconer Architects, the Artist in Residence program supports sustainable and expanded cross-disciplinary practices.
During the residency, Thom has engaged in artist-led research and meaningful exchange with the Brown Falconer studio including delivering a hands-on participatory workshop with the team.
Image courtesy the artist.
Thom Buchanan
Thom Buchanan is a multi-disciplinary artist, living and working in Tarntanya, Adelaide on the Kaurna country. He graduated with a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from the School of Art, Architecture and Design at Uni SA. His practice traverses a cross-disciplinary mode of investigations. Informed by his background in drawing and painting, it also incorporates installation, photography, video, performance, sound, murals and collaborations.
Buchannan is a master of large-scale live performative works and collaboration. He has been interrogating ideas of the physiological ramifications of built and natural environments for 15 years and still asking questions. He has exhibited extensively locally, nationally, and internationally and has won a number of Art Prizes and major grants. Buchanan’s work is held in esteemed collections in Australia and across the globe in private and corporate collections.
His work has been commissioned by The State Theatre Company SA 2013, 2016, Australian Dance Theatre 2011, Vivid Festival Sydney 2018, Adelaide Festival 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2022, 2024, 2026, Edinburgh Fringe Festival UK 2018, Limosani Projekets 2018, 2023, Fringe Festival SA 2003-23, SALA Festival 2000-24, the Surge Festival in Glasgow 2018, Wonderwalls Festival 2015, do it [Adel] Samstag Museum 2015, Cabaret Festival 2018, Guitar Festival 2012, Canberra Centenary 2011, Canberra Symphony Orchestra 2011, Zephyr Quartet 2009, Big Picture Pillar festival 2020, Big Day Out 2004,2007, Rise Festival NZ Christchurch Museum 2013, ExplandLAB Adelaide Film Festival 2023, SIDance Festival Seoul 2024, Cupa Dupa Festival NZ 2024, Slingsby Theatre Company 2018, 2024, 2026, Neoteric SA Survay Adelaide Festival 2022 and Illuminate Festival 2024.
In 2022, Thom conceived, developed and initiated, in conjunction with colleague Ray Harris, ‘Neoteric’ the new survey exhibition for mid-career South Australian artists at the Adelaide Festival.
