Tom Hoitsma: Sculptural Thinking in Paint

Unchained.Art Contemporary Gallery invites you to an Artist Meet & Greet with Tom Hoitsma.

His solo exhibition introduces the ‘The Unknowable World’. A new body of work in which Hoitsma extends the structural intelligence of his sculptural practice into paint, where form loosens and gesture becomes a carrier of memory and motion.

‘The Unknowable World’ traces an evolution in Hoitsma’s practice, where sculptural thinking remains the foundation, while painting becomes the primary site of exploration. Resilience emerges not as a fixed outcome, but as an ongoing process shaped by memory, material, and transformation.

Underlying this shift is the idea that nature is never experienced universally but filtered through individual reality and memory - an internal landscape that Hoitsma now translates through paint.

‘Each of us filters nature through our own experience,’ Hoitsma says. ‘That idea has become central to my work, shaping how resilience and renewal take form across both sculpture and painting.’

While distinct in material and gesture, the paintings and sculptures operate as two expressions of the same visual logic. Angular tension and structural balance in the metal works find their counterpart in the layered movement, compression, and release of paint. Nature is not treated as ornament or motif, but as an active force - persistent, unpredictable, and impossible to contain.

With this exhibition, Unchained.Art Contemporary Gallery presents Hoitsma at a moment of expansion.

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