Hayley Tompkins // Profile

Supra

Whilst in Lumsden, I am concentrating on new work that brings together painted constructions using wood and technological objects that appear to distill in a humanistic manner, both archaic and contemporary sources. I am using mobile phones, tools, hand -held objects to build from.

I also use watercolour or gouache on paper to make things that sometimes do get referred to as drawings. I actually think of them more as objects with particular surfaces. Each one is like a wall, doorway, window, woven rug, mirror, lake, body-many things- but each a painted equivalence of something. A technicolor projection of another, indeterminate time or event.

The watery painted outcome comes closer to a transcription, but a non-word thing.

Content is something previously seen, thought, felt, dreamed of, which is then being re-constructed or re-imagined. I make these things to loosely enmesh myself in reality and to express positive doubt.

The painting is always a substitute.
It is made to be seen and is aware.
It has it's own built-in mechanism that measures time.
It's a form of optical research.

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