Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present an exclusive online presentation of new works on paper by Hayley Tompkins.
Titled The Dailies, this ongoing series emerges from the artist’s daily ritual of painting on torn pages from lined notebooks and planners. Often executed in the evenings and in quick succession, these works capture fleeting sensations and emotional fragments. The series' title is a nod to the film industry’s term “dailies”—the raw, unedited footage captured in a day’s shoot—positioning each work as a standalone scene within a larger, unfolding sequence.
Notebooks are tools for measuring and planning time, their lines suggestive of routine, productivity, and self-tracking. Instead of neatly recording habits or schedules, Tompkins' pages become mind maps where thoughts and dilemmas are worked out in paint. Energetic brushstrokes, layered colors, and lyrical marks overwrite and obscure the lined orderliness, replacing it with sensation and spontaneity. Color in The Dailies behaves like thought itself: it shifts, disappears, and returns, resulting in atmospheric compositions that resist containment.
In The Dailies, the framework of the planner is rendered anew through joyful abandon. Tompkins’ daily practice yields a nonlinear record of life’s unpredictability, guided by intuition and immediacy rather than by reason or intention.
Tompkins (born 1971, Leighton Buzzard) lives and works in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions of Tompkins work include Tell Gonzo How, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023, Far, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022, Features, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2022, After a Long Sleep, It Woke Up, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2020, Bag of rainbow, Recent Activity, Birmingham, 2020, Stick crystals to paintings, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2018, Hayley Tompkins, Lulu, Mexico City, 2016, Hayley Tompkins, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2013, and Currents, Studio Voltaire, London, 2011, among others. Additionally, Tompkins participated in Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, which originated at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, 2021, and traveled to Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK, 2021-2022; Termite Tapeworm Fungus Moss, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow as part of Glasgow International 2021; Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London; Scotland + Venice 2013: Corin Sworn / Duncan Campbell / Hayley Tompkins, collateral event of the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani, Venice; and The Imminence of Poetics, the 2012 Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo.
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Hayley Tompkins
In her paintings and sculptures, Hayley Tompkins seeks to explore and expand paints’ application as a transformative tool. Often modest in scale, Tompkins’ energetic works are born from an experimental approach rooted in the navigation between intent and spontaneity. Soaked in paint, the works’ surfaces remain unpredictable as they accrue swaths of fluorescent color, and layers of brushstrokes that develop from both free-form associations, and distilled calculated interventions. Fluctuating between sensual, organic marks, and those that are angular, repetitive, and orderly, Tompkins employs these conflicting languages of mark-making to create images that are both serious and playful--the product of multiple acts of insertion, deletion, and transformation. The resulting images provoke our inherent desire to rationalize images, but firmly defy categorization, encouraging the viewer to engage with the works on their own terms, with feeling rather than reason, and as both an image and an object.
Tompkins (born 1971, Leighton Buzzard) lives and works in Glasgow. Solo exhibitions of Tompkins work include Tell Gonzo How, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, 2023, Far, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2022, Features, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, 2022, After a Long Sleep, It Woke Up, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, 2020, Bag of rainbow, Recent Activity, Birmingham, 2020, Stick crystals to paintings, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2018, Hayley Tompkins, Lulu, Mexico City, 2016, Hayley Tompkins, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2013, and Currents, Studio Voltaire, London, 2011, among others. Additionally, Tompkins participated in Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945, which originated at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, 2021, and traveled to Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham, UK, 2021-2022; Termite Tapeworm Fungus Moss, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow as part of Glasgow International 2021; Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London; Scotland + Venice 2013: Corin Sworn / Duncan Campbell / Hayley Tompkins, collateral event of the 55th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Pisani, Venice; and The Imminence of Poetics, the 2012 Sao Paolo Biennale, Sao Paolo.
