Tom O’Hern Exhibition – Hell Pig

Tom O’Hern – Hell Pig

Opening night: Friday 9 June, 17.30 – 19.00
Exhibition continues to Saturday 1 July2023

Hell Pig

I’ve been thinking about mechanical megafauna rolling around and eating up all the marsupials and cutting up all the hills for roads and the sprawl. A hell pig or entelledont, an ancient pig beast from Europe the size of a Hilux with big crocodile jaws.

I’ve been thinking about all the animals we’ve introduced and the continents of North and South America crashing together three million years ago. The plants of Europe have all been trained by glaciers to colonise bare earth and the side of the road getting sprayed pink, green and blue.

I’ve been thinking about the big boulders we chuck everywhere to stop people doing doughies and how they look like sort of like stonehenge or something.

I’ve been thinking about getting tailgated by this car with one headlight and in the mirror how it looked like a big skull with one eye.

– Tom O’Hern, 2023

Featured image above: Tom O’Hern, Two header 2023, Enamel and reflective vinyl on aluminium, 119 x 72cm.