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Spanning work made over the last twenty years, Wanna surveys Tompkins' exploration of language as a form of potential: shifting, compressing, layering, modulating. Across spoken-word, painting, typewritten pages, and fabric works, Tompkins ecstatically pushes the boundaries of her mediums, wherein the flexibility of the performative word leads to material transformation.
Tompkins’ performances began in the 1990s following her graduation from The Glasgow School of Art, and through the formation of the collective Elizabeth Go with her twin sister Haley Tompkins, as well as Cathy Wilkes, Sarah Tripp, and Victoria Morton in 1997. In 1999, she joined the Scottish indie rock band Life Without Buildings (active from 1999 through 2002) as their lead singer. Despite only being active for four years, the groundbreaking band amassed a cult following. A DIY and punk ethos is felt across all of Tompkins’ work, a type of balancing act between austerity and beauty.
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Spanning work made over the last twenty years, Wanna surveys Tompkins' exploration of language as a form of potential: shifting, compressing, layering, modulating. Across spoken-word, painting, typewritten pages, and fabric works, Tompkins ecstatically pushes the boundaries of her mediums, wherein the flexibility of the performative word leads to material transformation.
Tompkins’ performances began in the 1990s following her graduation from The Glasgow School of Art, and through the formation of the collective Elizabeth Go with her twin sister Haley Tompkins, as well as Cathy Wilkes, Sarah Tripp, and Victoria Morton in 1997. In 1999, she joined the Scottish indie rock band Life Without Buildings (active from 1999 through 2002) as their lead singer. Despite only being active for four years, the groundbreaking band amassed a cult following. A DIY and punk ethos is felt across all of Tompkins’ work, a type of balancing act between austerity and beauty.
The physicality of Tompkins’…
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