Internal Weather (Gift), 2021

“The way the mark-making happens makes me think about bodies or my own body”. Hands, feet, intestine-like fleshy shapes often appear in Tom Woolner’s work, and do so with an allusion to a narrative. ‘Internal Weather (Gift)’ has a baby-smooth surface of chalky pastel tones, which gives the work all the delicate beauty of a meticulously extracted fresco. Little wonder this fantastical and absurd object takes on a tantalising authority.