My Pick: Bill Henson

BILL HENSON Born 1955, Melbourne Lives Melbourne Bill Henson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. His powerful and edgy photographs approach both the painterly and the cinematic, bringing together the formal and classical with the gritty, casual dramas of the everyday. Henson defines and redefines his subjects with a rigour that is inseparable from his technical command. He is a master of the use of light and dark in the tradition of the great European painters. Beautiful, confronting, and unforgettable his images capture a universal essence and enliven our own sense of being. Press Release taken from The Art Gallery of New South Wales Bill Henson exhibition titled ' 3 Decades of Photography'. Visited on the 12th of March: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/sub/billhenson/exhibitions/press.html

BILL HENSON
Born 1955, Melbourne
Lives Melbourne

Bill Henson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. His powerful and edgy photographs approach both the painterly and the cinematic, bringing together the formal and classical with the gritty, casual dramas of the everyday. Henson defines and redefines his subjects with a rigour that is inseparable from his technical command. He is a master of the use of light and dark in the tradition of the great European painters. Beautiful, confronting, and unforgettable his images capture a universal essence and enliven our own sense of being.

Press Release taken from The Art Gallery of New South Wales Bill Henson exhibition titled ' 3 Decades of Photography'.
Visited on the 12th of March: http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/sub/billhenson/exhibitions/press.html

Bill Henson is one of Australia's leading contemporary artists. His powerful and edgy photographs approach both the painterly and the cinematic, bringing together the formal and classical with the gritty, casual dramas of the everyday. Henson defines and redefines his subjects with a rigour that is inseparable from his technical command. He is a master of the use of light and dark in the tradition of the great European painters. Beautiful, confronting, and unforgettable his images capture a universal essence and enliven our own sense of being.

Bill Henson
Untitled #4, 2010/2011
AH SH131 N12E
archival inkjet pigment print
180 × 127cm
Edition of 5 + 2 A/Ps

 

 

 

 

Bill Henson
Untitled #10, 2011/2012
LS SH176 N25
archival inkjet pigment print
180 × 127cm
Edition of 5 + 2 A/Ps