Artist : Henry Hussey
Title : If Only You Would See
Medium : textile and ceramic
Size : 245 (H) x 135 (W) x 5 (D) cm


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“The work deals with the fallacy of utopia and the end route of ideaolgy. It very much draws on ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch which I have always viewed as having to go through hell to get back to the garden. All utopian views are in a way an attempt to get back there. yet to truly reach the garden everyone needs to share your viewwhich has materialised in nazism, communism and even extremes of religion. You will cause chaos before you create harmony. All the ceramic heads represent blind kings / leaders, each is an idealogical movement thinking they finally have the right answer yet they have all got it wrong.”

Henry Hussey 2021



Henry Hussey’s artworks are often emotionally and physically raw, yet contrastingly beautiful and intricate, created withforce through often paradoxically laboured mediums, including textile, glass, ceramic, paint and film. Whether through an expanding vocabulary of quasi-mythological symbols, or in embellished lines of text extracted from performative situations Hussey explores personal and national identity in response to aggravating relationships and events. Recent experimentations reveal a deep concern with control and chaos and the sweet spot in between these two distinctive states.

Henry Hussey is a British artist born in London, where he still resides. He studied Textiles at Chelsea College of Art beforecompleting an MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. His work is widely respected and has been exhibited in notableexhibitions including The Textiel Biennale 2017 at Museum Rijswijk in the Hague, a solo presentation at Art Central inHong Kong, the Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2014 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the RoyalAcademy London and Volta New York and the Young Talent Contemporary Prize at the Ingram Collection in 2016. Husseyhas participated in residencies at La Vallonea, Tuscany, Italy in 2018 and will participate in a residency at Palazzo Monti,Milan in 2020. His work is held in collections worldwide including Simmons & Simmons, Hogan Lovells, The Groucho Club and Soho House.



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