About
William O'Toole is a contemporary painter living and working on Dharawal land. Working primarily in oils on non-traditional materials, O’Toole appropriates images from film stills, commercial listings and digital archives, cropping and removing them from their original contexts before their reproduction on densely textured surfaces. 
Using supports such as doormats and synthetic turf to mimic the grain of analog film or the pixelation of poorly scanned images, these bootlegs of the original images aim to analyse the fetishisation of resolution, speed and degradation within contemporary image circulation.


Education
University of Wollongong: Bachelor of Creative Arts with Distinction (Visual Arts)


Awards
Hazelhurst Arts Centre Artist in Residence Prize
Diana Wood Conroy Prize
NAVA Ignition Award for Professional Practice
University of Wollongong: Dean's Merit List
Creative Wollongong Studio Residency 2023 - 24


Exhibitions
2025   Wollongong Art Gallery: Here + Now V
2025   Goodspace Gallery: Toolbox
2024   Egg & Dart: And Then There's This
2024   Project Contemporary Artspace: Artifex
2023   Hazelhurst Arts Centre: Vital Signs
2023   PICA: Hatched National Graduate Show
2023   Bad News Gallery: Nothing is Real(ism)
2023   Smoke & Steel: Volume 8
2023   Project Artspace: Still Life Painting Prize
2022   Shellharbour Imaginarium: Showcase
2022   Wollongong Art Gallery: Postcards From The Edge
2022   Project Artspace: Still Life Painting Prize
2021   Project Artspace: Summer Members Magic
2019   Project Artspace: Autumn Members Magic
2018   Wollongong Gallery: Locals on Board