Alexander Hinks

Biography

Alexander Hinks (b. London 1985) studied at Wimbledon School of Art, receiving the Vice Chancellor's Award, current member of The London Group and curator at The Cello Factory. Recent exhibitions include Embracing the Underdog, Q-Park Soho, 2018. Nothing Endures but Change, St John’s Waterloo, 2018. Defining Structure, The Cello Factory, 2018. Protocol, Cavendish Square, 2018. In The Dark, The Cello Factory, 2019. Miniscule, Venice Biennale, 2019. London Group, KCC, 2019. Amalgamation, The Cello Factory, 2019. Drawn to Another World, The Cello Factory, 2020. Re-Defining Structure, Online, 2020. LG Annual, Online, 2020. 

His practise represents the relationship between nature, technology and the sublime. As upon peering into another world with bold straight line structures merging out of curves and fluidity. The voids and chasms of space allude to universes. The unknown has always captured Hinks's imagination and his works reflect the diverse elements which surround us. 

The desire to free or extend the painted rectangle can also be seen in the use of languages which may appear to sit uneasily together. This is not the art of synthesis, rather the clash of opposites. His avowed aim is to destabilise the viewer. The highly tense colouration and rhythmic grids suggest psychedelia and reference pulp sci-fi as much as a faithful satellite view of our planet’s beleaguered terrain. Nonetheless, the imposed grids which drift in and out of focus could also be mapping the beauty of far off gaseous galaxies. The aqueous flow of colour seems to seek no resolution as it disappears through imagined chasms only to well up from some other vortex then to dissolve into white light or clog into an earthy richness. Simon Streather, Drawn to Another World, Artlyst review, 2020

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