Mark Hislop

State to State

11 October - 08 November 2025

Exhibitions

Spring1883 Art fair | 2025

Melbourne Art Fair | 2024

Denouement | 2024

Spring1883 Art fair 2023

The Warp Speed legacy | 2023

A Motley painting of everything that ever was | 2022

State to State brings together works that explore transformation through two distinct but related approaches. The first involves the literal movement of materials— a segment of the artist’s studio wall transported between cities, embedded in new locations creating permanent physical exchanges between distant sites. The second explores transformation through drawing, where images undergo changes of state: breath progressively obscures an image, a photograph slowly dissolves into abstraction through repeated acts of mark-making.

Spanning ten years of Mark Hislop's practice these approaches reveal transformation as both physical displacement and perceptual shift. Whether moving matter across distances or tracing the movement from representation to abstraction on paper, the works focus less on destinations than on the spaces where change occurs—the hidden disk connecting distant studios, the moment breath begins to erase what it also creates, the incremental zoom that transforms document into poetry.