IMPIOUS MONK

OLLY READ

You HAD ME IN STITCHES

A new provocative solo exhibition exploring the tension between the familiarity of everyday materials and the deconstruction and remoulding of the self and body in the form of multi-scale soft sculpture.


The HIVE
Level 1, 50 Main St, Ulverstone TAS
26 July - 12 October 2025


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photo by Dylan Proctor

(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘By Hook or By Crook’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘By Hook or By Crook’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’
(Left to right) ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin I’, ‘By Hook or By Crook’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘By Hook or By Crook’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘No Body Nose’
(Left to right) ‘No Body Nose’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’
(Left to right) ‘Spinal Column’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’
(Left to right) ‘Loop Holes’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin I’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘Loop Holes’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin I’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘Loop Holes’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘Loop Holes’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’
(Left to right) ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’, ‘Revolting Bodies: Mirror Image’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin II’, ‘No Body Nose’
(Left to right) ‘Loop Holes’, ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘In My Skin I’
(Left to right) ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘By Hook or By Crook’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’, ‘Revolting Bodies: Mirror Image’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘Loop Holes’
(Left to right) ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘In My Skin I’,By Hook or by Crook’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’, ‘Revolting Bodies: Mirror Image’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘Loop Holes’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’, ‘Revolting Bodies: Mirror Image’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘Loop Holes’
(Left to right) ‘By Hook or By Crook’,  ‘In My Skin I’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under’
(Left to right) ‘Loop Holes’, ‘You Give Me Lip’, ‘They See Everything But Themselves’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘By Hook or By Crook’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘Loop Holes’, ‘Revolting Bodies: Mirror Image’
(Left to right) ‘In My Skin I’, ‘By Hook or By Crook’, ‘No Body Nose’, ‘In My Skin II’, ‘Spinal Column’, ‘Loop Holes’, ‘Revolting Bodies: Mirror Image’
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
By Hook or By Crook
In My Skin I
In My Skin I
In My Skin I
In My Skin I (detail)
In My Skin I (detail)
In My Skin I (detail)
In My Skin I (detial)
In My Skin I
In My Skin I (view from the inside)
In My Skin I (interior)
In My Skin I (interior)
In My Skin I (interior)
In My Skin I (interior)
In My Skin I (interior)
In My Skin I (interior)
In My Skin I (detail)
In My Skin II
In My Skin II
In My Skin II
In My Skin II (detail)
In My Skin II
In My Skin II  (shadow)
In My Skin (detail)
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
Loop Holes
My Cup Runneth Over
My Cup Runneth Over
My Cup Runneth Over
My Cup Runneth Over
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
No Body Nose
Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under
Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under
Safe, first, idle, heavy, on the other, under
Spinal Column (front)
Spinal Column (detail)
Spinal Column
Spinal Column
Spinal Column
Spinal Column
Spinal Column
Spinal Column (rear)
Spinal Column (rear)
Spinal Column (detail)
Spinal Column  (detail)
Spinal Column (detail)
Spinal Column (detail)
They See Everything But Themselves
They See Everything But Themselves
They See Everything But Themselves (detail)
They See Everything But Themselves (detail)
They See Everything But Themselves (detail)
They See Everything But Themselves (detail)
They See Everything But Themselves (detail)
They See Everything But Themselves (detail)
You Give Me Lip
You Give Me Lip
You Give Me Lip
You Give Me Lip
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)
You Give Me Lip (detail)

IMPIOUS MONK

OLLY READ