Carfuffle, 2025

Tim Wilson’s current practice investigates the hidden infrastructures of global capitalism, focusing on how objects are produced, consumed, and circulated within dispersed manufacturing systems. By fragmenting objects into abstract components, Wilson highlights the invisibility of the materials, labour, and processes that shape them. These components become analogies for broader economic structures, reflecting on the nested systems that drive neoliberal capitalism, from individual parts within a product to local manufacturing within global trade networks. In contrast to mass manufacturing techniques, Wilson employs his hands to sculpt and paint irregular forms, highlighting the act of labour within his work.

Tim Wilson is a Magandjin (Brisbane) based artist working predominantly in mixed-media sculpture and oil painting. He has a varied background in carpentry, ceramics and industrial design, which informs his current practice through analysis of globalised manufacturing systems and the act of labour. After living and practising on Yagembeh Country (Gold Coast), Wilson has recently relocated back to Magandjin, where he is undertaking a Master of Visual Art at Queensland College of Art and Design.

Wilson has exhibited in various solo and group shows in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, notably being selected for Prize No Prize at The Walls gallery, curated by Mariam Arcilla. He has also been commissioned to produce ceramic works by the Institute of Modern Art (IMA) for the installation New Eelam: Brisbane, curated by Annika Kuhlmann. In 2018, Wilson was awarded the Creative State Summit Bursary by the City of Gold Coast. Also in 2018, he was commissioned by Home of the Arts (HOTA) as a member of the Makers Take Collective to create the HOTA Christmas Installation. Recently, Wilson was awarded the Lennox St. Gallery Art Award 2025 for his painting Parts of it.