Former Newcastle Art Gallery director once more in the frame

By Scott Bevan
Updated May 24 2019 - 7:01pm, first published 7:00pm
COLOURFUL: Former director David Thomas standing in front of a Virginia Cuppaidge painting at Newcastle Art Gallery, before delivering a lecture about the gallery's evolution on Friday night. Picture: Jonathan Carroll
COLOURFUL: Former director David Thomas standing in front of a Virginia Cuppaidge painting at Newcastle Art Gallery, before delivering a lecture about the gallery's evolution on Friday night. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

When David Thomas arrived in Newcastle in 1965 to be the director of the city's art gallery, he quickly realised this was a town of fire and steel rather than oil on canvas.

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