2025 Exhibition | in a part of your mind, I am you

EXHIBITION
28 June – 24 August 2025

A solo exhibition featuring Australian artist Tom Polo


in a part of your mind, I am you
28 June - 24 August 2025

Tom Polo's practice encompasses painting and installation and explores the notions of conversation, gesture, and emotional exchange as embodied acts of portraiture. in part of your mind, I am you will conceptualise the gallery as a stage, structured in four acts, wherein works blur boundaries between the self and others to mask and unveil the complexities of our inner worlds.

The exhibition will feature new works, including a series developed during the artist's recent residency in New York and a site-specific billboard installation. Additionally, a survey of existing works will be restaged to create a thematic narrative punctuated by artworks by renowned international artists Tracey Emin, Ugo Rondinone, and Urs Fischer.


Artist Biography

Tom Polo works across painting and installation, giving material form to the intangible acts of exchange between people. He explores conversation, gesture and emotional exchange as embodied acts of portraiture. 

Over the past fifteen years, Polo has exhibited in solo and group presentations in Australia and internationally, notably Thin Skin, Monash Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (2023); 2022 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Free/State , Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (2022); The National: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2019); Primavera: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2017) and;  Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016). 

His works are held in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney; and Artbank, Australia amongst others. 

Polo has been the recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Scholarship and has undertaken residences at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, ARTSPACE, Sydney, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, ACME Studios, London and in 2024 undertook a four month residency at ISCP, New York, awarded through Creative Australia.


Exhibition Opening
Saturday 28 June | 5 pm - 7 pm

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The in a part of your mind, I am you exhibition is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW


media enquiries:


MEDIA CONTACT: For further information or to request interviews and details of the media preview, please contact Siân Davies, [email protected], 0402 728 462, or Sasha Haughan, [email protected], 0405 006 035.


IMAGE CREDITS:

Tom Polo ALL I KNOW, 2015, billboard project commissioned by Campbelltown Arts Centre, photography Zan Wimberley

Tom Polo Studio Portrait, Photograph by Garry Trinh

EXHIBITION
28 June – 24 August 2025
TOM POLO

GALLERY
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