HAYLEY TOMPKINS

The work of Glasgow-based artist Hayley Tompkins’ is led by an experimental approach to painting, often produced using unconventional supports, her works demonstrate a transformation of the familiar. Returning to uniform objects continuously onto which Tompkins paints, she culls materials from the everyday – spoons, knives, stools – or ones more peculiar such as galvanised trays (for which one might also use in gardening) and transforms them into three dimensional paintings. With an ongoing interest in colour, function and form, the hyper hues of Tompkins work layer spontaneous gesture and deft control to form images reminiscent of landscape - a meditation on duration, democratically employing and privileging both the premeditated and the unpredictable.

^{Hayley Tompkins, Installation view,  ‘Scotland + Venice 2013’, Common Guild, Glasgow, 2014
Courtesy of the artist, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow and The Common Guild Glasgow
Photo Ruth Clark}

^{Hayley Tompkins, Installation view ‘Scotland + Venice 2013’
Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani, Venice, 2013
Courtesy of the artist, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow and The Common Guild Glasgow
Photo Ruth Clark}

^{Hayley Tompkins, No Title, 2015, Acrylic on paper
33.3 x 37.8 x 3.7 cm, 13.1 x 14.9 x 1.5 in framed 15.5 x 20 cm, 6.1 x 7.9 in unframed (TMI-TOMPH-39629)
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photo Ruth Clark}