The PoorPeopleCo team is based on Gadigal Country, but we know our community tunes in from all over. We want to welcome you, and say a sincere thank you to the Traditional Custodians of all the different lands we are all standing on today. We pay our deepest respects to First Nations Elders past, present, and future.
© poorpeopleco 2026. All rights reserved.
ABN 44742695152
opening night
tap gallery, surry hills
Tuesday, 11 august
6-9 pm
Also showing from
10-16 august
mon-sun, 11 am - 6 pm
about the show
Loneliness isn’t gendered. It’s human.Calling it “male” loneliness doesn’t make it more meaningful. It just reframes it as a special kind of suffering.But suffering isn’t new.
And it isn’t exclusive to men.The so-called “male loneliness crisis” is one rooted in a form of masculinity shaped by power structures that punish vulnerability and reward control, dominance, and emotional detachment.And we think that's something worth questioning.
Got questions?
Just get in touch with us through either of the links below.
The PoorPeopleCo team is based on Gadigal Country, but we know our community tunes in from all over. We want to welcome you, and say a sincere thank you to the Traditional Custodians of all the different lands we are all standing on today. We pay our deepest respects to First Nations Elders past, present, and future.
© poorpeopleco 2026. All rights reserved.
ABN 44742695152
The Hairless Gimp:
Many Faces of Peter Dutton
April 2025, Goodspace Gallery
Sponsored by The Gladstone Hotel & Young Henry's
We take full credit for Peter Dutton not only losing the election, but losing his seat.
You're welcome, Australia.View the works below
Let Renters Eat Cake, Photography, 2025, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
Let Renters Eat Cake, Photography, 2025, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
Let Renters Eat Cake, Photography, 2025, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
P.M.P. Potato Mash Prime Minister, instant mash, cheap suit, Australiana memorabilia, photography, 2025, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
Russia's Dolls, acryllic, spray paint, marker and charcoal on unstretched canvas, 2025, Thom Crowhurst @thomcrowhurst
Peter Grutton: the Mother, the Father and the Holy Grublet (series), polymer clay, jelly wax, fabric, polyester, latex and butter beans, 2025, Laura Hunt @lunarhut
Peter Grutton: the Mother, the Father and the Holy Grublet (series), polymer clay, jelly wax, fabric, polyester, latex and butter beans, 2025, Laura Hunt @lunarhut
You can at least take us out for a long lunch before you fuck us (series), resin, pigment, ink, polyurethane varnish, 2025, Tess Tickle @poorpeopleco
Throat Goat, watercolour and ink on cotton paper, Tess Tickle @poorpeopleco
Radiated People, blended debris, pigment, resin, 2025, Neil P. McCann @wearepipe
Nosferatu Dutton, 2025, Toby Zoates @tobyzoates
Dutton Dressed As Mutton, diigital image on archival cotton rag, 2025, Jim Anderson
Down Boy, watercolour and ink, Dominic Proust @domin8
The Shape of Things to Come, watercolour and ink, Dominic Proust @domin8
National Disability Insurance Scam, ink on paper, Ruby @pointless_stabs
Dutton's Vision, stencil, spray paint & inks, 2025, Andrew @agit8d1
Self Peeling Spud, lino print on paper, Georgia Laughton @georgia.photos.art.mischief
Bad Boy Dutty, photomontage, Rogan Vegas @rgnvgs
Smug, happy, angry, formal, sly, sad Potato Man wants to run our country - hurray! , rotten potatoes, skewers, needles, clay, 2025, Milla Watts @m_ r_ c_ w_
The Dutton Divide, watercolour, acrylic, oil paint, 2025, Michaela Kaiser @michaelakaiserart
The PoorPeopleCo team is based on Gadigal Country, but we know our community tunes in from all over. We want to welcome you, and say a sincere thank you to the Traditional Custodians of all the different lands we are all standing on today. We pay our deepest respects to First Nations Elders past, present, and future.
The Many Faces of Gina Rinehart
April 2024, Goodspace Gallery
Sponsored by The Gladstone Hotel & Young Henry's
If Vincent Namatjira's (brilliant) portrait made her throw an adult tantrum, we hope this show made her head explode.View the works below
Tess Tickle & Betty Swallows of @poorpeopleco
Closed Inheritance, collage, 2024, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
Highbred Princess, collage, 2024, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
The Miner's Queen, collage, 2024, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
The Philanthropist, collage, 2024, Betty Swallows @poorpeopleco
PROLARPS PROFESSIONAL LAPSE, mixed business, 2024, Neil P. McCann @wearepipe
Billion Dollar Omelette, Performance piece (public egging), 2024, Maddy Furness @maddy.furness
Bring Me Dutton & the Iron Ore, watercolour on cotton paper, 2024, Tess Tickle @poorpeopleco
This is my mine. My coal. My money., watercolour on cotton paper, 2024, Tess Tickle @poorpeopleco
SCUMSUCKER (Lard Encased) not to scale, preserved clam worm, beef fat, isopropyl alcohol, distilled water, silicone, epoxy, glass, cotton wicks, 2024, Tess Tickle @poorpeopleco
Eat the rich - specifically, this bitch., pen and ink on paper, 2024, Kel Christiansen @kelchristiansen
The PoorPeopleCo team is based on Gadigal Country, but we know our community tunes in from all over. We want to welcome you, and say a sincere thank you to the Traditional Custodians of all the different lands we are all standing on today. We pay our deepest respects to First Nations Elders past, present, and future.
© poorpeopleco 2026. All rights reserved.
ABN 44742695152
who are the poor people?
PoorPeopleCo was birthed when Betty Swallows, Mike Hunt & Tess Tickle magically appeared, fully formed, under a rock one night.Beneath a full moon, they swore a sacred oath to forever reject the elitist & gate-kept nature of the general art world; foregoing a life of ass-licking & hobnobbing for sales, to focus on what really matters instead.
TESS TICKLE
Graduating in 2018 from COFA with a BFA, majoring in sculpture, performance and installation, Tess Tickle has had a long career of menial jobs that don’t relate to her degree in any way.She makes multi-disciplinary works that allow her to obscure herself behind humour, satire, or some secret third thing. When she isn’t making art or feverishly struggling to keep up with basic life-admin, you can find her staring at the ceiling in silence.
BETTY SWALLOWS
Faggot, poofter, gay, ass licker, ass bandit, fairy gold mine, balls deep in the ass crack of the homosexual cabal. A magical fairy decided to reject the dream that was falsely sold over the rainbow, because Dorothy was a coke head with a substance abuse problem and the daddies were still trying to act like heterosexuals and curse the queers that decided to walk against the yellow brick road.Betty Swallows is an ex-fashion photographer that now uses their powers to make mixed media works for… good.
MIKE HUNT
Mike Hunt will eat your nightmares. Mike Hunt is all-encompassing. There is no escape, only submission.With flesh prisons abound, Mike Hunt sculpts visions of wet flesh and horror that will make clits squirm and dicks recoil. Currently residing in Sydney, Australia after finding themselves stranded on earth, they want to get inside of the human, and wear their skin like a suit.
The PoorPeopleCo team is based on Gadigal Country, but we know our community tunes in from all over. We want to welcome you, and say a sincere thank you to the Traditional Custodians of all the different lands we are all standing on today. We pay our deepest respects to First Nations Elders past, present, and future.
© poorpeopleco 2026. All rights reserved.
ABN 44742695152