BASIC TALKS ~ Noel Hensey ~ December 2024

1pm, 6/12/2024

Hugh Lane Gallery

Basic Space is delighted to present Noel Hensey for our December BASIC TALK - 1pm on Friday the 6th of December 2024 at the Hugh Lane Gallery

ARTISTS STATEMENT

I hate nearly every Artist's Statement I've ever read. They are generally highly impersonal and at worst incomprehensible.
It would be great if they were short and to the point. I'll go first...
“I see things most people don’t see and then I show them to you.”

BIOGRAPHY

Noel Hensey (b. Dublin) currently lives and works in Co. Kildare, Ireland. He is a graduate of both the PG Dip and MA Fine Art courses from Chelsea College of Arts, London.
His art practice is concerned with philosophical exploration balanced with some humour. He is a multi-disciplinary conceptual artist working primarily in; photography, sculpture, sound, video and installation.
His practice is inspired by the Buddhist practice of meditation, the stand-up comedy of Stewart Lee and Steven Wright and by conceptual art, specifically the work of Marcel Duchamp.

His selected group exhibitions include: ‘Members Show’, OUTPOST’, Norwich, ‘Open Sound: Rewind’, OUTPOST’, Norwich, ‘Funny Dread’, SET, London, 2024; ‘MATTERS OF TABLE’, (peripheriesPOST Course Exhibition), Gorey School of Art, Co. Wexford, 2023; ‘Members Show’ OUTPOST’, Norwich, ‘192nd RHA Annual Exhibition’, RHA Gallery, Dublin, 2022, ‘Camera Obscura’, a.topos, Venice, 2021; 'Jammed Into A Paradox’, 601 Artspace, New York, 2020; ‘Pop Living’, Schwartz Gallery, London, 2015 and ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries’, Site Gallery and S1 Artspace, Sheffield and the I.C.A., London, 2011.

Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Openness’, 36 Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2023; 'Verloren Und Gefunden', SomoS Art House, Berlin, 2021; ‘Homage’, Peak, London, 2020 and ‘So You’re Going To Die’, Eight Gallery, Dublin, 2017.

His work is part of the collections of Unit 1 Gallery, London, SomoS Art House, Berlin, the Office of Public Works (O.P.W.), Dublin as well as numerous national and international private collections.
His awards include; The Visual Artists Ireland (VAI) ‘Experiment! Award’, 2023; The Arts Council of Ireland’s ‘Agility Award’, 2023, 2022 and ‘Visual Arts Bursary Award’, 2020; Kildare Co. Co. Arts Service ‘Emerging Visual Artist Solo Exhibition Bursary Award’, 2011 and the Chelsea Arts Club Trust’s ‘Special Projects Award’, 2009.

Website: https://noelhensey.com/

Instagram: @nhensey and @nhenseyphotography

Photo credit: Michael Donnelly (www.michaeldonnellyphotography.com).

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BASIC TALKS is a series of informal talks with leading contemporary practitioners. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with the Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is an open platform for lectures, workshops, presentations and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers and critics who generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art.

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