Tom Polo’s practice encompasses painting and installation exploring notions of conversation, emotional exchange and gesture as embodied acts of portraiture – giving material form to the intangible acts of human exchange.
Featuring restaged existing and new works, including a series developed during a 2024 International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York City residency and a site-specific billboard installation, the exhibition conceptualises the gallery as a stage, structured in four acts. Works blur boundaries here between the self and others, to mask and unveil the complexities of our inner worlds.
Tom Polo, deals and decisions (a light leak), 2019, acrylic on canvas, 60 × 50cm. Photograph: Luis Power. Courtesy the artist, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney and Ngununggula, New South Wales
Ngununggula
28 June to 24 August 2025
New South Wales
