SUE TOMPKINS

Working with fragments of language gathered from everyday encounters and experiences, Glasgow-based Sue Tompkins’ practice incorporates text, sound, installation, painting and performance. Tompkins’ energy and experimentation is consistent throughout this multi-faceted approach - the dynamic, gestural nature of her paintings echoing the energetic delivery of her live performance. Indeed, whether delivered, written or painted Tompkins teases meaning, memory and physical rhythm from her disparate linguistic source.

^{Sue Tompkins, Installation view, ‘In NO Time’, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2018
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photo Patrick Jameson}

^{Sue Tompkins, Sue Me, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 64.3 x 54 x 4 cm
Courtesy of the artist and The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow
Photo Keith Hunter}