Hoi Polloi

About

Hoi Polloi is derived from the Greek for ‘the people’, or the many, most often used as an insult for the “great unwashed masses”. The exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures from the sixteenth century to the present. It explores how artists have represented, resisted, or reimagined the ordinary man through the lens of the spiritual. From the grandeur of the Baroque line to fractured modern visions, Hoi Polloi considers the human form as both spectacle and subject, inviting viewers to encounter ‘the people’ in ways that are at once striking, intimate and unsettling.