“Many Hands”
Tom Polo
13 Sept → 12 Oct 2013
Tom Polo’s recent practice uses painting and installation with humorous text and figurative based works to discuss an anxiety with the human condition, ideas of portraiture and the modes of artistic production.
In Many Hands, Polo presents new paintings and wall works that emerge, develop and disappear during the course of the exhibition dates. Many Hands examines the roles of artist and audience and the expectations around our desire for an outcome.
Tom Polo uses painting and painted environments to explore how conversation, doubt and gesture are embodied acts of portraiture. Frequently incorporating text and figurative elements, his works draw upon acute observations, absurdist encounters, personal histories and imagined personas. An ongoing interest across his practice is the emotional and performative relationships between people within social, theatrical and psychological space.