Uncertain Pastures: Matthew Hopkins and Tom Polo. Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

     

installation images by John Brash

FIELDS OF UNCERTAINTY (Playing With Painting)

As part of Time & Vision, 20th October- 11th November 2012 at The Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London

FACIAL: Matthew Hopkins, Mary MacDougall and Tom Polo, TCB Art Inc, July 2012

GESTURES AND MISTAKES, Gertrude Contemporary 2012

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The New Science of Personal Achievement

2011 Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship
Artspace, Sydney

The New Science of Personal Achievement, 2011
installation view, Artspace, Sydney

The New Science of Personal Achievement, 2011
installation view, Artspace, Sydney
Photography: silversalt

DISAPPOINTED WITH EVERYTHING (It Happens), Grantpirrie, Sydney (September 2011)

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Disappointed With Everything (Not Everyone), 2011, neon and acrylic wall painting.

Neon text taken from the artist's father's handwriting and wall painting adapted from the artist's mother's drawing.

Marks (A Field), 2011, acrylic on canvas, 78 cm (diameter)

Somebody Once Told Me, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 78 cm (diameter)

Fleshy, 2011, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 25 cm

Disappointed With Everything (It Happens), 2011, installation view, Grantpirrie

Disappointed With Everything (It Happens), 2011, installation view, Grantpirrie

DISAPPOINTED WITH MANY PEOPLE & THINGS, ACME Project Space, London (July 2011)

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ITSYOURTIME, 2011, flashing fluorescent neon tubing on sheet metal backing

People like it when you tell them things, 2011, canvas banner displayed in gallery window

Stone/Face, 2011, acrylic on canvas board

Vessel/Head, 2011, acrylic on canvas board

Installation View of Stone/Face and Vessel/Head, Gallery 1

Jobs/Roles, 2011, acrylic on canvas

WHAT MATTERS, 2011, acrylic paint on table cloth from table the artist ate at alone for sixty days prior to the exhibition + gaffer tape

Installation view of WHAT MATTERS (background) and Less is More/More or Less, 2011, acrylic on wood found on site (foreground)

Installation View, Gallery 1, ACME Project Space

SOON, 2011, acrylic and gouache on paper

Balls, 2011, acrylic on canvas board and wooden stick

Installation view, Gallery 2, ACME Project Space

DISAPPOINTED WITH MANY PEOPLE AND THINGS (Fallen Banner), 2011, acrylic on linen banner

Judge/Mental, 2011, graphite on found competition badge

Installation View, Gallery 2, ACME Project Space

MY MOTTO (Fly the flag), 2011, acrylic on canvas and wooden dowel, performance instrument

'PAINTING PERFORMANCE', 2011, acrylic paint on wall, painted by the artist at exhibition private view

'PAINTING PERFORMANCE', 2011, detail

Fleshy (Susan), 2011, acrylic on canvas