Hobart interview

Hobart’s work spans performance, installation, poetry, sculpture, animation and film.

He was co-founder of Even Orchestra an experimental theatre company, winner of the Zap award at the Brighton Festival 1988 and toured Australia the UK and the US. 

He has written and directed over a dozen Australian films and animations winning awards in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK.   

Hobart's music clip for Mental As Anything  'Let's Cook' was selected for an exhibition at the Museum Of Modern Art, New York in 1982. He directed clips for some seminal Australian bands including Laughing Clowns and the Cockroaches. In 2008 his animation Removed was screened at the Tate Modern in the Figuring Landscapes show.

For the past two decade he has concentrated on Sculpture, Installation and Performance. With 7 solo shows.

In 2016 he won the Chippendale World Art Prize which entailed a residency and sole show in Kefalonia Greece

He exhibited in 2017 Berlin Art Week at Momentum Worldwide at the Kunsqarter Betanian. 

Hobart regularly exhibits (2019-2024) with the tree Veneration Society and has developed five projection mapped installation works.