Artist Steve Hendry
Born in Scotland, Hendry graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art in 1996. His ‘daring Bacon-esque figure studies’ have exhibited nationwide, grabbing the attention of critics, including W Gordon Smith and Ian Gale. His painting, ‘The New Seers’ achieved critical acclaim and won the Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Art Solo Exhibition award. Hendry is popular amongst professionals and creatives. His work has featured on the single sleeve of Snow Patrol’s Velocity Girl and is collected by the likes of Sister Bliss (‘Faithless’).
Hendry’s deliberate and dynamic approach to his figure painting aims to challenge the viewer with a compelling intimacy and intensity. His work seeks to unsettle or console our perceptions and sensibilities and has at times a vicious impact that is hard to ignore. His life-sized figures foment extremes of emotion through reaction, rapture or repulsion and continue to provoke huge debate and discussion.
Beneath the work’s surface, Hendry deals with narratives that are concerned with our relationship to each other, new technology, media, society and our environment. These underlying themes juxtapose the beauty, fragilities and tensions of the human condition.
Notwithstanding, a leading, challenging and fulfilling career as a figurative artist is not his only talent; he has diversified into photography, TV and film working as a Director, Cameraman and Editor world-wide. Winner of the Edinburgh International Film Festival Best Documentary/Short Film Award in 2003 and a Scottish Design Award in 2006, he has also been nominated for a Cannes Film Festival Award in 2000 and Royal Society Television Award in 2006. He is currently living in Scotland, specializing in contemporary figurative painting whilst researching and developing a continuing body of work.
Education
1996 BA Hons Degree in Fine Art - Drawing and Painting Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Hendry@Pittenweem, Pittenweem Arts Festival, Fife
Flaubert Gallery, Edinburgh
Axolotl Gallery, Dundas Street, Edinburgh
1997 The Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
Group Exhibitions
2013 Scotland Art Gallery Bath Street, Glasgow
Perthshire Open Studios Session House Gallery, Kirkmichael
2012 Perthshire Open Studios Session House Gallery, Kirkmichael Braemar Gallery, Braemar, Scotland
2011 The Sun Gallery High Street, Newburgh
Scotland Art Gallery Bath Street, Glasgow
Braemar Gallery, Braemar, Scotland
2010 Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Edinburgh Arts Festival 3/3, Antigua Street Gallery, Edinburgh
Cambridge, Manchester and Newcastle Arts Fairs,
Axolotl Gallery Flaubert Gallery Flaubert Limited, Edinburgh
Axolotl Gallery Dundas Street, Edinburgh
2009 148th RGI Annual Exhibition Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Glasgow
183rd RSA Annual Exhibition Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh SSA Winter Exhibition George Street Gallery, Edinburgh
Flaubert Gallery Flaubert Limited, Edinburgh
2008 Glasgow Art Fair Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Annual Winter Exhibition Cyril Gerber Fine Art, Glasgow
Flaubert Gallery Flaubert Limited, Edinburgh
The Randolph Gallery Summer Show Randolph Gallery, Edinburgh
Awards
1996 Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Award (Solo Exhibition)
Public Collections
Threshold Digital Art Space, Perth Concert Hall
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design