HENRY HU

INDUSTRIOUS ITERATION OF COLOUR, TEXTURE & FORM

Exercising through various mediums, Henry Hu’s emerging practice commits to an infusion. An exchange. An immediacy. A link between the interior and the exterior— of a self, a being, an identity, a consciousness.

Each individual series offers an overarching narrative, steps away from the present for a spell: tasked with casting new perspectives, fresh air to breathe, and spiritual relief. Often juxtaposing the past with the future, differing forms of surrealistic fantasies unfold across his works; along with a recurring structure, the heart of all series rests in harmony.

Born and raised in Hong Kong before attending boarding school in Queensland, Australia. Henry Hu admits he was never any good at school but that at some point during his studies of architecture and civil engineering, a calling to create took hold of him, and things haven’t been quite the same ever since.

Beginning his artistic journey in the accessible realm of digital art, the quickness of ability to iterate and develop ideas in an industrious manner is something which seems true to this day of Henry’s work. At Kuriosis, we have over 150 artworks in many different series and combinations.

Having studied many of the great masters of painting, particularly Danish painters with whom he connected with the muted tones and domestic scenes, he describes himself as liking “the melancholy, the desolation of it all. It was immersive. The pieces are very hushed, very composed, very poised, sort of mystical, almost. And, I suppose, these paintings, while static, or perhaps because static, are somewhat transparent”

An innovator in whatever he seems to put his hand to, Henry Hu effortlessly creates photography, graphics, motion, analogue and digital works and seemingly simultaneously creates pause, chaos and captures moments throughout various media.

“Initiated from the urge to coexist physical and digital arts. I had been utilising solely digital tools until then, so it was the wish to do something concrete, dynamic, perhaps on a larger scale. With that in mind, I made new sets of digital artworks, specifically for print, onto numerous fabrics, surfaces — eager to see how they would interact with raw materials: acrylics, spray paints, threads, modeling doughs. Trials and errors charted the progress, noting the little details, alert to the little changes, without being forceful. The end result, a plunge into maximalism, a playful flux of colour. But still, traces of everything pre-existed.”

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Henry Hu

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