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Adrian Hobbs

ADRIAN HOBBS

Intimate Extremes 1301SW 31 January–7 March 2026 Sydney
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1301SW presents Intimate Extremes, an exhibition of new paintings by Sydney-based artist Adrian Hobbs. Investigating the dynamic tension of pictorial oppositions, Hobbs navigates the implicit contradictions that characterise the practice of painting — surface and space, form and absence, motion and stillness, the singular and the multiple — while foregrounding the intimate links between these opposing positions.

Approached through a reduced visual language that is at once general and specific, the paintings resist containment, extending beyond the frame. Each work articulates an inherent sense of possibility: Intimate Extremes gestures toward future outcomes, approaching painting as a site of complexity and ongoing transformation — a space where meaning remains active, multifaceted, and open‑ended.

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Adrian HobbsIntimate Extremes, 2026 (installation view)Courtesy the artist and 1301SW
Adrian HobbsIntimate Extremes, 2026 (installation view)Courtesy the artist and 1301SW
Adrian HobbsIntimate Extremes, 2026 (installation view)Courtesy the artist and 1301SW
Adrian HobbsIntimate Extremes, 2026 (installation view)Courtesy the artist and 1301SW
Adrian HobbsIntimate Extremes, 2026 (installation view)Courtesy the artist and 1301SW
About the Artist

‘My paintings are the result of taking some common pictorial strategies and mixing them up with a number of principles ubiquitous to the way chaos is conceptualised across a range of academic traditions; mainly science, philosophy and history.

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About the Gallery

1301SW was founded in 2022 in Naarm/Melbourne’s inner-south, embracing the region while having strong roots internationally. Extending from its Melbourne base, the gallery expanded its unique and ambitious exhibition program to Gadigal/Sydney with the opening of a second gallery space in late 2024.

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3 Hiles St, Alexandria
Sydney
Australia
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Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 11am-3pm
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Sydney 3 Hiles St, Alexandria
1301SW contemporary art gallery in Sydney Australia
1301SW
3 Hiles St, Alexandria, Sydney, Australia
+61 466 895 659
http://www.1301sw.com

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Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 11am-3pm
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