Hayley Tompkins

Hayley Tompkins (born 1971) is a British artist based in Glasgow. She is best known for her minimal works that bridge painting and object-making. Her paintings and installations include everyday, found objects. Her twin sister is the visual and sound artist Sue Tompkins.

Education

Tompkins was born in 1971 in Leighton Buzzard. Her twin sister is the visual and sound artist Sue Tompkins. Hayley earned a BA in painting and an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art.

Art practice

Tompkins primarily works in small-format watercolour painting and lo-fi sculptures. She created a series of works she called Metabuilts. These ready-mades are often painted and assembled together. They occasionally include found photographs or fragments of photographs. Tompkins has said that she looks “to create an atmosphere, or a blurring of meaning surrounding the objects”.[1]

Tompkins is represented by The Modern Institute, Glasgow and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York.

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions include: The Common Guild, Glasgow (2014); Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2013); Currents, Studio Voltaire, London (2011); A Piece of Eight, The Modern Institute, Osborne Street, Glasgow (2011); Autobuilding, Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2009); and Re, The Drawing Room, London (2008).

Selected group exhibitions include: The Persistence of Objects, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, curated by the Common Guild (2015); The Grass is Singing, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, curated by The Modern Institute (2015); I Cheer a Dead Man’s Sweetheart, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (2014); The Imminence of Poetics, São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo (2012); and Watercolour, Tate Britain, London (2011).

References

  1. Scotland, Joe (2014). "Hayley Tompkins" (PDF). Aspen Art Museum.

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