Overview
Using familiar and commonplace objects, Tompkins’ works explore the language of paint and the experience of the ready-made. Pouring paint and allowing the sediment to form by itself, make her Digital Light Pool acrylic series on plastic trays.
Her recent Lookalike series has used photographic imagery of metallic anonymous machinery, saws, pipes and various industrial materials. Whilst she refers to the human being in articulated painted shirt sleeves, encoding both series with a sense of a person selecting, choosing and transferring information.
Tompkins uses a form of piracy, selecting objects and then radicalising them through paint to alter their appearance. This playful behaviour, aims to destabilise their description and therefore alludes to their categorisation in the world of objects around us. For the artist’s first presentation at Jupiter Artland she will produce a new floor based installation using paint and image.
Hayley Tompkins will be giving an Artist's talks on Saturday 13th August at Jupiter Artland. Reserve a place here.
When
Mon – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Outside August: Thu – Sun, 10am – 5pm
Where
Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House Steadings, Wilkieston,
Edinburgh, EH27 8BB
