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The 1st Wisdom by Nick Sheehy
Nick Sheehy - The Medusa (watercolour & gsraphite on paper).
Nick Sheehy
Nicky Sheehy, The Rooster and The Face Trap, c. 2021
acrylic on panel
Nick Sheehy is an Australian-born illustrator.
After studying bronze sculpture in the wilds of Tasmania, Nick gave up on art only to re-discover his love of drawing whilst living in London, sparked by an interest in the city’s low brow art, illustration, street art, and graffiti.
In his work, Nick explores the dreamlike, sometimes semi-autobiographical scenes and oddball characters that echo from his childhood imagination. Employing a laborious technique, building up layers of texture and thin color, his work infuses precision and attention to detail with random abstraction and clumsiness.
Nick Sheehy
Nick Sheehy’s “Hollows” at Arch Enemy Arts.
Opening tonight at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is artist Nick Sheehy’s solo exhibition, “Hollows.”
“Hollows,” created entirely while in lockdown from the COVID19 pandemic, highlights the expected bizarro scene stills and typical misfit characters Sheehy's known for, however these new pieces highlight a different side of his work and what the artist says was an attempt to keep things more "painterly and atmospheric". Despite the overall dark palette and tone of this collection, titles like "Everything is OK" and "V Sign" show a real effort to keep things positive through the experience of months of isolation and the emotional heaviness that inevitably went along with it.
The artist writes, “What started as an exploration towards a richer and darker atmosphere, ultimately turned into a series of scenes taking place in a cave-like world where various familiar and not-so-familiar characters evade, snare, hunt, and hoard. Tripping over littered fossils and stumbling past forgotten totems with forgotten meanings, our cave dwellers emerge from the shadows, and take a step into the light.”
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