A collection of new ink and pencil drawings by Tom O’Hern imagine the territory between what is wild and tame. With dystopia (and an off-beat sense of humour) on the brain, the artist summons among many bizarre scenes; chained-up unicorns, feral garden gnomes, an artist falling apart doing a tax return, a brief moment of mysticism in the exotic plant section at the hardware store and, as he shared, “marsupials who literally screw themselves to death.”
Tom O’Hern, Mild Beast, 2017, coloured pencil on paper, 84 x 56cm. Courtesy the artist and Bett Gallery, Tasmania
Bett Gallery
21 July to 7 August, 2017
Tasmania
