Tommy Carman situates painting within a broader examination of work, competition, and the internalisation of social expectations, using labour as both a subject and strategy. Employing the varying histories and vocabularies of painting, he works both on canvas and directly on to gallery walls to produce complex tensions that both encode and resist contemporary psychological conditions.

 

Tommy Carman (born 1997, Sydney) lives and works in London, UK. He graduated with a Master of Fine Art from the National Art School, Sydney, in 2022. He was a recent finalist of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship prize, and was the recipient of the Bird Holcomb Foundation scholarship in 2019. Recent exhibitions include solo shows at LAILA, Mega, and Chauffeur, and a two-person show with Corey Black at Sydenham International.

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