Patrick Thomas is an English-born

graphic artist A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, p ...

. He has illustrated book reviews and opinion pieces in ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

''. Thomas was born in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

in 1965, and lives in Berlin.

Work

A billboard Thomas created depicting a horse with the title "Moo" was displayed at the

Leicester Square Leicester Square ( ) is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which was named after the recently built Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester ...

tube station in London as promotion for the

Affordable Art Fair The Affordable Art Fair is an international, contemporary art fair held in different cities around the world. First launched in Battersea Park, London, England, in 1999, the Affordable Art Fair is now an international event taking place in sever ...

. The poster appeared in the midst of a horse-meat scandal involving the queen. The controversy arose when six carcasses tainted with the anti-inflammatory drug, a potential carcinogen, exported to France in May 2019, may have entered the food chain and been eaten by the Queen and members of the Royal Family after the horse meat was passed off as beef. Thomas commented that it "is the job of an artist to be witness to his time in history and art should have a social function and be an intrinsic part of everyday life." He regularly contributes illustrations to ''

The New York Times Book Review ''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...

''. His works were featured in a March 2009 exhibition at ''The New York Times Gallery 7. Thomas' ''Protest Stencil Toolkit'' is a set of graffiti stencils sold in book form. The stencils are designed to facilitate the creation of protest graphics in public spaces. Thomas has lived in Berlin since 2011 and has an artist's studio in

Neukölln Neukölln () is one of the twelve boroughs of Berlin. It is located in the southeastern part from the city centre towards Berlin Schönefeld Airport. It was part of the former American sector under the Four-Power occupation of the city. It featu ...

, Berlin.

Publications

*Black and White, Paperback, 96 pp. Studio laVista, Barcelona, Spring 2005, Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, *Protest Stencil Toolkit Paperback, 144 pp. Laurence King Publishing, London, May 2011, Language: English, .

References

External links

Patrick Thomas official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thomas, Patrick Living people British graphic artists 1965 births Artists from Liverpool British expatriates in Germany 21st-century British artists Artists from Berlin The New York Times people Academic staff of State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart