Hush
Unseen I & II, 2013
Colour screen print on handmade cotton paper, 29cm x 22cm
Provenance: Metro Gallery, Melbourne.
Sirens II
Belgium primed linen, gallery box mountain with painted sides, acrylic paint, Montana gold spray paint, screen inks & silk screen print, 150cm x 150cm
Provenance: Metro Gallery, Melbourne.
Hush Print 1/2
Colour screen print, set of 2: 60cm x 60cm
Provenance: Metro Gallery, Melbourne.
Formally trained for five years at the Newcastle school of art and design, HUSH took to painting after years spent working as an art director in the Far East. His work translates directly from street to gallery. Hush’s unique style, recognisable through its focus on the female form set within backgrounds filled with an expressionist’s freedom of layering and colour. The serene balance of traditional painting is combined with a messier passion, influenced by Western traditions of action painting and graffiti, culminating in a harmony that feels surprisingly natural. (1)
They might be geishas wrapped in silk kimonos, court ladies in waiting or archetypes from Japanese fables, but it's in the robes they wear that their creator records his messages: graffiti tags he's seen on his travels, tribal patterns, symbols and signs. ''I like this reflection on the female figure in art, mixing it up with graffiti and tagging to take a more contemporary route…graffiti is so often seen as dark, disruptive and damaging, but the woman beautifies things, makes it romantic and feminine.’' (2)