Perhaps the most binding attraction I have to the practice of painting is how successfully it can simultaneously hold a whole range of implicit contradictions, stuff like surface/space, abstraction/representation, inclusion/negation, stillness/motion etc. When any set of opposites are held simultaneously they create tensions that, if allowed, are ultimately generative. And despite the popular tendency to regard contradiction as a characteristic flaw, in art it is what principally fuels its dynamism and perpetual motion to new forms and methods of expression. Difference, in this respect, creates novelty, and a process that holds contradiction as a central tenet will over time reliably bring about  anomalies, or breaks from the normal. 

It is in this respect that I have titled this exhibition Reliable Anomalies, as a way of illustrating the fecund nature and vitality that is inherent to difference.

- Adrian Hobbs

Adrian Hobbs lives and works in Sydney, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney (2004) and a Master of Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney (2015). Recent exhibitions include Told Tales, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2019), Color and Form, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami (2019), Cryptograms, Gallery 9, Sydney (2020), RumoriDall’armaddio (Noises From The Closet), The Flat, Milan (2021).