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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.
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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”.
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).
