Henry Curchod

Overview
Henry Curchod
Figures in Henry Curchod's paintings are almost never alone. Men are locked in a wrestling match, people stamp on strangers, police throw suspects to the ground, parents break down in front of their children, heads lie severed from their bodies. Seen fighting, being bullied, going mad, fleeing from violence, or lying limp after an attack, tension erupts that is at times physical, psychological and emotional - or all three at once. In the artist's latest exhibition, many of these figures seem to reappear across different works. Curchod collects these moments from daily life in a notebook, drawing events after they have occurred and begin to recede to memory. A culmination of duration and experience, the paintings are sketched lightly with oil sticks, followed by turpentine-dipped brushes that are pushed into the gestural marks, with final charcoal lines bringing greater clarity to the figures. Careful preparation of the surface ensures the paintings absorb light to further emphasise their tactical quality and non-screen origins. Together, this process and these material choices maintain something of the intimacy of an impromptu drawing. His depictions of the quotidian become exaggerated with time, moving further and further away from a realist or photographic visual register. The resulting images are either weird or wild. The scenes are equal parts ambiguous, anxious, and dreamlike.
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Henry Curchod

Henry Curchod (B.1992, Palo Alto, USA) got BA/BFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales 2011-2014.  Recent solo exhibitions include: 'Oh Fortuna!' C L E A R  I N G, New York, USA (2024); 'Paris Internationale', Gallery Vacancy, Paris, France (2023); 'Trouble on the event horizon', MAMOTH, London, England (2023); 'Rice is god's dandruff', Chauffeur, Sydney, Australia (2022); 'Set your friends free', MAMOTH, London, England (2021); 'Sharing the sky', Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand (2021); 'Inside Head, Outside Head', Martin Browne Gallery, Australia (2021); 'Bitter Winds', Sumer Gallery, Tauranga, New Zealand (2019); 'Apfelschuss', Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne , Australia (2019);' Tonkotsu Method', China Heights Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2016)

 

Recent group shows include: 'Friends in the Arts' TANK Shanghai, Shanghai, China (2023); 'Hugging a tree is like kissing a dog', Shoot The Lobster, New York, United States of America (2023); 'Of Foxes and Ghosts', MAMOTH, London, UK (2022); 'In Between', Spurs Gallery, Beijing, China (2022); 'Its raining in sunshine' Lon Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (2021); 'Bring me the sweat of Gabriela Sabatini', Campbell Projects, Sydney, Australia (2018); 

 

Awards include: Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, Finalist (2021); Fortyfive Emerging Art Award (2017); Belle Magazine Art Prize, Winner (2016 and 2015); The Mosman Art Prize, Finalist (2014); The Sulman Prize, Finalist (2014) etc.

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