Xueyang Hu Bess

 
 
 

I am a multidisciplinary visual artist with a focus on painting. My works reference the intersection between sensation and emotional touch, seclusion and corporeal desire, as well as the unconscious and irrational dimensions of human existence. My practice is also concerned with applying diverse mediums and materials to realise textural possibilities. Most works are figurative paintings that lie between narrative and non-narrative, intentionally evading symbolic transformation and the representation of real space. As to the methodology of creation, I explore the poetics of imagery formed by the combining of content, colour, composition and other possible constituent elements, trying to find a balance and fusion of expression and experimentation.

The work, You & Us series 1-6 represents a kind of privately ambivalent relationship and emotional conflict between two close people or strangers. ‘You’ and ‘us’ are the two pronouns that can bring people closer together. When they are used, a speaker is no longer an observer or an outsider but instead shows an intimacy. Private emotions are shared. They are not just theirs, but more likely to be our own. By imagining the reality of your being together, we are also connected.


Yesterday, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
380mm x 285mm

Bedtime, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
295mm x 210mm

Shopping Day, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
390mm x 270mm

Mousetrap, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
285mm x 380mm

Infatuation, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
285mm x 380mm

Playing & Caring, 2020
Oil and oil stick on paper
285mm x 380mm

300 Days, 2020
Video
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Gracia Haby

I have been collaborating with Louise Jennison since 1999, making artists’ books, collages, large-scale installations, prints, drawings, zines, and various tales. Besotted still, it appears, with paper for its adaptable, concealable, revealing nature, we use an armoury of play, the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you into our A(rtists’ books) to Z(ines).

As artists and wildlife carers, our practice frequently concerns the natural world, addressing themes of conservation and biodiversity. Our home-based studio is also home to our wildlife shelter, Tiny but Wild.

I collage with words about dance for Fjord Review.

http://gracialouise.com
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