Quick Cart
£0.00 (0 items)
next
John Hainsworth
Degree: BA (Hons) Fine Art
University: Loughborough University
Graduation Year: 2011
Hainsworth creates mysterious (verging on sinister) paintings with a cinematographer's eye. The artist makes work with a Noir quality, drawing out film's inherent ghostliness. The paintings feel as if they are part of some catastrophic B-movie trajectory, which is what makes them charged and compelling.
"My work engages with romantic and sublime modes of thinking, to explore and document the demise of a fictitious world. This demise comes in the form of presenting the viewer with a surreal and extreme narrative on the current global strain placed on finite resources.
It is this strain that allows me to create work focused on the notion of our transition into a new human induced geological epoch called the Anthropocene. The increasingly complex control and use of resources has driven me to create a narrative that appears to commentate and document such a change. Within this subject, I concentrate my imagery on landscapes of geological importance and scenes based on personal experiences from growing up in and around the Teutoburger Wald, in North-West Germany."
Read More...
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011, EM|11 Platform: Forged Attrition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2011, Contemporary Romantics, Degree Art, Vyner Street, London
2011, SNW//BLND, Vyner Street Gallery, London
2011, Five Quarters, Acquire Gallery, London
Prizes
2011, Regional Finalist for Lloyds TSB Art of Nurture, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2010, Art of Giving Finalist, Saatchi Gallery, London
2010, Regional Finalist for Lloyds TSB Art of Nurture, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham