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Hannah Barry are excited to present a cycle of four paintings by British artist Henry Hudson. At once pastoral, psychedelic, crime scene and psychogeography, the works will be shown at the gallery with a large-scale, custom-fitted Scagliola floor (imitation marble made of polished plaster mixed with glue and coloured pigments) designed especially by the artist. The installation will create a mise-en-scène in the space, providing a scenography and stage for a series of new performances traversing pop and classical music, dance, poetry and theatre.
Working across sculpture, painting, etching and performance, Henry Hudson is known for his radical use of plasticine as a dominant painterly medium. Originally chosen for its inexpensive, theatrical and expressive form, Hudson’s use of plasticine has become a vehicle for novel experiments in painterly technique and expression. That said, nothing sticks to nothing marks a conceptual, material, and emotional break with Hudson’s previous bodies of work (such as his ‘Hogarth’ scenes or ‘Jungle’ series), presenting large-scale works that are made using a combination of encaustic wax with his native plasticine.