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'''Henry Hudson''' (born 1982, [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]]) is a half British half American artist who lives and works in [[London]].<ref name="tjboulting.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.tjboulting.com/biography/70980/henry-hudson|title=TJ BOULTING - Artists|work=tjboulting.com}}</ref> He is best known for his use of [[plasticine]] as his artistic medium in the creation of textured ‘paintings’.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2015/04/henry-hudson-part1-artist-studio.html|title=Henry Hudson - Part I - The Artist in his Studio {{!}} Sotheby's|website=www.sothebys.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> Hudson’s most notable exhibition to date was ''The Rise and Fall of Young Sen – The Contemporary Artist’s Progress,'' which was shown at [[Sotheby's|Sotheby’s SI2 Gallery]], London in May 2015. The exhibition consisted of ten large scale Plasticine paintings, depicting a contemporary version of William Hogarth’s ''[[A Rake's Progress|A]]'' [[A Rake's Progress|''Rake's Progress'']].<ref name="sothebys.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/henry-hudson-contemporary-artist-progress-rise-fall-young-sen-ls1502.html|title=Henry Hudson: The Rise and Fall of Young Sen – The Contemporary Artist’s Progress {{!}} Sotheby's|website=www.sothebys.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> According to the New York Times, all ten paintings were sold prior to the show opening.<ref name="Reyburn">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/arts/international/struggling-artists-in-london-21st-century-style.html|title=Struggling Artists in London, 21st-Century Style|last=Reyburn|first=Scott|date=2015-04-26|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

After spending time in the [[Congolian forests]], Hudson will dedicate his upcoming 2016 Sotheby's SI2 show in New York to jungle paintings also made of Plasticine.

== Biography ==
Hudson grew up in [[Yorkshire]] and attended [[Ampleforth College]]. He graduated from [[Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design]] in 2005 after taking a foundation degree at [[Chelsea College of Art and Design]].<ref name="tjboulting.com"/> His father is sculptor, Richard Hudson.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tatler.com/bystander/events/2005/february/henry-hudson-exhibition | work=Tatler | date=2005-01-01 | accessdate=2015-04-03 | title=In the February issue: Henry Hudson's art exhibition}}</ref>

According to Nick Foulkes of [[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]], Hudson’s “engagement with art began when, as a child of six, he say [[Henri Rousseau]]’s ''[[Tiger in a Tropical Storm|Surprised]]!'' at the [[National Gallery]] after which Hudson spent his youth constantly drawing and meeting other artists such a [[Lucian Freud]] at Green Street Club in Soho, London.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/11519164/Henry-Hudson-the-artist-remodelling-Hogarths-work-from-plasticine.html|title=Henry Hudson: the artist remodelling Hogarth's work from plasticine|website=Telegraph.co.uk|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

== Artwork ==

Hudson makes paintings, sculpture, etchings and performance based work. For the past seven years, his medium of choice has been Plasticine.[http://www.henry-hudson.com/about-2/] In [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] newspaper Hudson explains “I did performance as a student, but when I left I was broke and looking to make things I could sell. I’ve always loved the impasto painters: [[Leon Kossoff]], [[Frank Auerbach]], anyone a bit gloopy. So Plasticine felt like something I could run with.”<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>

In the [[The New York Times|New York Times]] Hudson was quoted as saying that “there are certain things you can do with Plasticine that you can’t do with paint”,<ref name="Reyburn"/> the writer Laura K. Jones has said that Hudson’s use of Plasticine creates paintings that look “more like oil paintings than oil paintings themselves”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32458735|title=Plasticine art by Henry Hudson on show at Sotheby's|website=BBC News|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.henry-hudson.com/about-2/|title=About {{!}} Henry Hudson|website=www.henry-hudson.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> and the critic [[Richard Dorment|Richard Dormant]] has described Hudson as an “astonishing young painter”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cosalondon.com/events_detail.asp?id=147|title=Cosa Creative Projects|website=www.cosalondon.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

Hudson’s work is concerned with ideas of Britishness and contemporary culture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tjboulting.com/exhibitionspage/334/hominidae|title=TJ BOULTING - Exhibitions|website=www.tjboulting.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> His most recent series, ''The Rise and Fall of Young Sen – The Contemporary Artist’s Progress,'' satirises social stereotypes and the vulgarity that can stem from wealth, frame and consumer culture.<ref name="sothebys.com"/> [[Dylan Jones]] wrote in [[GQ]] magazine: “the pictures are saturated with contemporary cultural references ‘satirising the absurdity of modern life, from political issues to social stereotypes and the contemporary art world’”. Hudson also often pays tribute other artists from history either through emulating their style or re-appropriating their compositions. Examples include [[Vincent van Gogh|Van Gogh]], [[Hieronymus Bosch]] as well as [[William Hogarth]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tjboulting.com/exhibitionspage/351/pellegrino|title=TJ BOULTING - Exhibitions|website=www.tjboulting.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

Hudson’s series, ''A Rake Revisited,'' which was shown at the [[Sir John Soane's Museum]] in London 2011, also appropriated Hogarth’s ''[[A Rake's Progress]]'' but with Hudson himself characterised as the main character, Tom Rakewell.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/henry-hudson-a-rake-revisited|title=Henry Hudson: A Rake Revisited|website=Time Out London|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> The director of the museum at the time, [[Tim Knox]], explained to Cassone magazine “There is a pervasive sense of fear that is even more tangible in Hudson’s Plasticine clad canvases than in the original paintings. His work both subverts and celebrates Hogarth’s originals, adding his own story to a work which has become enmeshed in our culture, part of our national consciousness. He embellishes and exaggerates and makes these images from nearly three centuries ago alive for us again, inviting us to look just as acutely at the state of our nation today.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cassone-art.com/art-news/2011/11/a-rake-revisited-henry-hudson-at-the-soane/|title=A Rake Revisited: Henry Hudson at the Soane :: November 2011 :: Art news :: Cassone|website=www.cassone-art.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

The artist [[Marc Quinn]] has said, “Hudson aligns himself with an irreverent and eccentric British tradition in art that is really the saviour of it… it’s a lineage of non-conformity yet quintessentially Britishness that is unique… Hudson has reinvented this tradition in his visual, trembling, vibrating, sculpted paintings.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fadmagazine.com/2015/04/16/preview-henry-hudson-the-contemporary-artists-progress-the-rise-and-fall-of-young-sen-at-s2-gallery/|title=PREVIEW: Henry Hudson "The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen" at S{{!}}2 Gallery|last=Staff|date=2015-04-16|website=FAD Magazine|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

The Director of Sotheby’s SI2 gallery Fru Tholstrup described Hudson to Wall Street International as “one of the most innovative young artists working today”. She went on to say that “through his painterly application of Plasticine, Hudson has developed a truly unique artistic language”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wsimag.com/art/14835-henry-hudson|title=Henry Hudson|date=2015-04-20|website=Wall Street International|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> Damien Hirst has described Hudson as “F***ing mad”.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/smutty-putty-henry-hudson-re-renders-hogarth-s-a-rake-s-progress-at-sothebys-10194502.html|title=Smutty Putty: Henry Hudson re-renders Hogarth’s A Rake’s Progress|date=2015-04-22|website=Evening Standard|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

Notable collectors of Hudson’s work include [[Marc Quinn]], [[Robert Hiscox]], [[Jay Jopling]], [[Mario Testino]], Tim Jeffries, [[Tommy Hilfiger]] and [[Mark Hix]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thethinkingtraveller.com/thinkpuglia/henry-hudson-at-villa-elia.aspx|title=Henry Hudson at Villa Elia|website=The Thinking Traveller|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> Hudson has also been photographed by photographers Gautier De Blonde for [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] and [[David Bailey]] for [[GQ]].<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>

Hudson has had numerous solo and group shows in [[London]], [[Beijing]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Singapore]], [[Paris]], [[New York City|New York]], [[Miami]] and [[Milan]] at venues including TJ Boulting (formerly [[Trolley Gallery]]), [[Sir John Soane's Museum]], [[20 Hoxton Square]], [[F2 Gallery]], [[Christie's]], 33 Portland Place, [[Fine Art Society]] and as part of the [[Hiscox]] Collection.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tjboulting.com/biography/70980/henry-hudson|title=TJ BOULTING - Artists|website=www.tjboulting.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

==Accident==
In July 2013, Hudson survived a white water rafting accident in the Northwestern [[Congolian forests|Congolian lowland forests]] not far from the [[forest-savanna mosaic]]. British singer [[Tom Odell]] was also present, in charge of navigation. Hudson then developed an obsession with this part of the jungle, as he trekked many miles to be rescued by Congolese army. He became fascinated by [[shamanism]], particularly in [[Siberia]], [[Mongolia]] and [[North America]], and in 2014, he returned to crash site with a bag of [[ayahuasca]], to be influenced fully by the surroundings. Later he painted it all at his studio in [[Roman Road, London]]. Odell was not injured.

== Currently ==
Hudson’s upcoming exhibitions will be at Carl Kostyál Gallery, London and [[Sotheby's|Sotheby’s]] SI2 gallery in [[New York City|New York]]. He was recently nominated from Pulse Miami Beach art prize for a series of Woodburytype prints.

In 2015 Thames & Hudson published an 8-page profile on Hudson in the publication, ''London Burning,'' where he paid tribute to the vices of Hogarth’s Tom Rakewell. The last photograph in the series depicted Hudson lying naked on William Hogarth’s grave in Chiswick, London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thamesandhudson.com/London_Burning/9780500970713|title=Thames & Hudson Publishers {{!}} Essential illustrated art books {{!}} London Burning {{!}} Portraits from a Creative City|website=www.thamesandhudson.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref>

In April 2015, Sotheby's published a feature on Henry Hudson in coordination with his show at Sotheby's S|2 Gallery titled, ''Henry Hudson: The Contemporary Artist's Progress - The Rise and Fall of Young Sen.''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.fabienfryns.com/extend/content/press/47/sothebys-lifestyle-april-2015.pdf|title=Lay It On Thick |work=Fabien Fryns Fine Art | last=Bound | first=Robert | date=2015-04-01 | accessdate=2015-03-31 }}</ref> In an essay about Hudson [[Nimrod Kamer]] described him as a 'champagne fascist'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.henry-hudson.com/nimrod-kamer/|title=Nimrod Kamer {{!}} Henry Hudson|website=www.henry-hudson.com|access-date=2016-06-04}}</ref> In 2015 he was extensively interviewed by GQ Magazine, with Dylan Jones describing Hudson as an 'iconic' artist".

In March 2016 he was profiled by Flora Alexandra Ogilvy for The Gentleman's Journal magazine.

Hudson currently lives and works in [[London]].

==See also==
*[[Marc Quinn]]
*[[Keith Coventry]]
*Carl Kostyál
*[[Fabien Fryns]]
*TJ Boulting (formerly [[Trolley Gallery]])

==References==
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{{Young British Artists}}

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The Contemporary Artist’s Progress: The Rise and Fall of Young Sen, Plate 6, 2013

Henry Hudson (born 1982, Bath) is a half British half American artist who lives and works in London.[1] He is best known for his use of plasticine as his artistic medium in the creation of textured ‘paintings’.[2] Hudson’s most notable exhibition to date was The Rise and Fall of Young Sen – The Contemporary Artist’s Progress, which was shown at Sotheby’s SI2 Gallery, London in May 2015. The exhibition consisted of ten large scale Plasticine paintings, depicting a contemporary version of William Hogarth’s A Rake's Progress.[3] According to the New York Times, all ten paintings were sold prior to the show opening.[4]

After spending time in the Congolian forests, Hudson will dedicate his upcoming 2016 Sotheby's SI2 show in New York to jungle paintings also made of Plasticine.

Biography

Hudson grew up in Yorkshire and attended Ampleforth College. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2005 after taking a foundation degree at Chelsea College of Art and Design.[1] His father is sculptor, Richard Hudson.[5]

According to Nick Foulkes of Vanity Fair, Hudson’s “engagement with art began when, as a child of six, he say Henri Rousseau’s Surprised! at the National Gallery after which Hudson spent his youth constantly drawing and meeting other artists such a Lucian Freud at Green Street Club in Soho, London.[6]

Artwork

Hudson makes paintings, sculpture, etchings and performance based work. For the past seven years, his medium of choice has been Plasticine.[1] In The Telegraph newspaper Hudson explains “I did performance as a student, but when I left I was broke and looking to make things I could sell. I’ve always loved the impasto painters: Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, anyone a bit gloopy. So Plasticine felt like something I could run with.”[6]

In the New York Times Hudson was quoted as saying that “there are certain things you can do with Plasticine that you can’t do with paint”,[4] the writer Laura K. Jones has said that Hudson’s use of Plasticine creates paintings that look “more like oil paintings than oil paintings themselves”[7][8] and the critic Richard Dormant has described Hudson as an “astonishing young painter”.[9]

Hudson’s work is concerned with ideas of Britishness and contemporary culture.[10] His most recent series, The Rise and Fall of Young Sen – The Contemporary Artist’s Progress, satirises social stereotypes and the vulgarity that can stem from wealth, frame and consumer culture.[3] Dylan Jones wrote in GQ magazine: “the pictures are saturated with contemporary cultural references ‘satirising the absurdity of modern life, from political issues to social stereotypes and the contemporary art world’”. Hudson also often pays tribute other artists from history either through emulating their style or re-appropriating their compositions. Examples include Van Gogh, Hieronymus Bosch as well as William Hogarth.[11]

Hudson’s series, A Rake Revisited, which was shown at the Sir John Soane's Museum in London 2011, also appropriated Hogarth’s A Rake's Progress but with Hudson himself characterised as the main character, Tom Rakewell.[12] The director of the museum at the time, Tim Knox, explained to Cassone magazine “There is a pervasive sense of fear that is even more tangible in Hudson’s Plasticine clad canvases than in the original paintings. His work both subverts and celebrates Hogarth’s originals, adding his own story to a work which has become enmeshed in our culture, part of our national consciousness. He embellishes and exaggerates and makes these images from nearly three centuries ago alive for us again, inviting us to look just as acutely at the state of our nation today.”[13]

The artist Marc Quinn has said, “Hudson aligns himself with an irreverent and eccentric British tradition in art that is really the saviour of it… it’s a lineage of non-conformity yet quintessentially Britishness that is unique… Hudson has reinvented this tradition in his visual, trembling, vibrating, sculpted paintings.”[14]

The Director of Sotheby’s SI2 gallery Fru Tholstrup described Hudson to Wall Street International as “one of the most innovative young artists working today”. She went on to say that “through his painterly application of Plasticine, Hudson has developed a truly unique artistic language”.[15] Damien Hirst has described Hudson as “F***ing mad”.[16]

Notable collectors of Hudson’s work include Marc Quinn, Robert Hiscox, Jay Jopling, Mario Testino, Tim Jeffries, Tommy Hilfiger and Mark Hix.[17] Hudson has also been photographed by photographers Gautier De Blonde for The Telegraph and David Bailey for GQ.[6]

Hudson has had numerous solo and group shows in London, Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore, Paris, New York, Miami and Milan at venues including TJ Boulting (formerly Trolley Gallery), Sir John Soane's Museum, 20 Hoxton Square, F2 Gallery, Christie's, 33 Portland Place, Fine Art Society and as part of the Hiscox Collection.[18]

Accident

In July 2013, Hudson survived a white water rafting accident in the Northwestern Congolian lowland forests not far from the forest-savanna mosaic. British singer Tom Odell was also present, in charge of navigation. Hudson then developed an obsession with this part of the jungle, as he trekked many miles to be rescued by Congolese army. He became fascinated by shamanism, particularly in Siberia, Mongolia and North America, and in 2014, he returned to crash site with a bag of ayahuasca, to be influenced fully by the surroundings. Later he painted it all at his studio in Roman Road, London. Odell was not injured.

Currently

Hudson’s upcoming exhibitions will be at Carl Kostyál Gallery, London and Sotheby’s SI2 gallery in New York. He was recently nominated from Pulse Miami Beach art prize for a series of Woodburytype prints.

In 2015 Thames & Hudson published an 8-page profile on Hudson in the publication, London Burning, where he paid tribute to the vices of Hogarth’s Tom Rakewell. The last photograph in the series depicted Hudson lying naked on William Hogarth’s grave in Chiswick, London.[19]

In April 2015, Sotheby's published a feature on Henry Hudson in coordination with his show at Sotheby's S|2 Gallery titled, Henry Hudson: The Contemporary Artist's Progress - The Rise and Fall of Young Sen.[20] In an essay about Hudson Nimrod Kamer described him as a 'champagne fascist'.[21] In 2015 he was extensively interviewed by GQ Magazine, with Dylan Jones describing Hudson as an 'iconic' artist".

In March 2016 he was profiled by Flora Alexandra Ogilvy for The Gentleman's Journal magazine.

Hudson currently lives and works in London.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Henry Hudson - Part I - The Artist in his Studio | Sotheby's". www.sothebys.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  3. ^ a b "Henry Hudson: The Rise and Fall of Young Sen – The Contemporary Artist's Progress | Sotheby's". www.sothebys.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  4. ^ a b Reyburn, Scott (2015-04-26). "Struggling Artists in London, 21st-Century Style". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  5. ^ "In the February issue: Henry Hudson's art exhibition". Tatler. 2005-01-01. Retrieved 2015-04-03.
  6. ^ a b c "Henry Hudson: the artist remodelling Hogarth's work from plasticine". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  7. ^ "Plasticine art by Henry Hudson on show at Sotheby's". BBC News. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  8. ^ "About | Henry Hudson". www.henry-hudson.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  9. ^ "Cosa Creative Projects". www.cosalondon.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  10. ^ "TJ BOULTING - Exhibitions". www.tjboulting.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  11. ^ "TJ BOULTING - Exhibitions". www.tjboulting.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  12. ^ "Henry Hudson: A Rake Revisited". Time Out London. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  13. ^ "A Rake Revisited: Henry Hudson at the Soane :: November 2011 :: Art news :: Cassone". www.cassone-art.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  14. ^ Staff (2015-04-16). "PREVIEW: Henry Hudson "The Contemporary Artist's Progress: the Rise and Fall of Young Sen" at S|2 Gallery". FAD Magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  15. ^ "Henry Hudson". Wall Street International. 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  16. ^ "Smutty Putty: Henry Hudson re-renders Hogarth's A Rake's Progress". Evening Standard. 2015-04-22. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  17. ^ "Henry Hudson at Villa Elia". The Thinking Traveller. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  18. ^ "TJ BOULTING - Artists". www.tjboulting.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  19. ^ "Thames & Hudson Publishers | Essential illustrated art books | London Burning | Portraits from a Creative City". www.thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
  20. ^ Bound, Robert (2015-04-01). "Lay It On Thick" (PDF). Fabien Fryns Fine Art. Retrieved 2015-03-31.
  21. ^ "Nimrod Kamer | Henry Hudson". www.henry-hudson.com. Retrieved 2016-06-04.
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