Hayley Tompkins, ‘Digital Light Pool (Earthed)’ (2013/14) (detail). Acrylic on plastic trays, stock photographs, wooden boxes, glass, plastic bottle, watercolour, artificial food. Photo: Ruth Clark.
Hayley Tompkins makes painted objects that transform familiar, commonplace things – such as knives, hammers, mobile phones or furniture. Her work articulates the relationship between the form, feel and function of an object.
Hayley Tompkins, ‘Digital Light Pools’ (2013/4). Acrylic paint on plastic. Photo: Ruth Clark.
Tompkins’ ‘Digital Light Pools’ are comprised of ready-made plastic trays, water bottles and boxed photographic prints which are full of painterly plays on colour, tone, texture and composition.
Project Details
For GENERATION, The Common Guild presented consecutive solo exhibitions by Hayley Tompkins, Corin Sworn and Duncan Campbell. These were the three artists presented by The Common Guild for the exhibition Scotland + Venice 2013, a Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
Read the Commentary by Adam Benmakhlouf –
A three-part publication with texts by Daniel Jewsbury, Aaron Peck, Joe Scotland and Gavin Smith.
Engagement
The Common Guild works with a range of groups on a programme of workshops that explore ideas related to each exhibition. This programme was coordinated by Margaret McCormick and workshops are led by ‘In the Shadow of the Hand’ (Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison).
