Nathan Henton is an artist based in Cornwall. His focus is on the exploration of shape, form and void within space, as well as the haptic phenomenological viewing experience of art. His practice branches off into other disciplines such as collage, photography and audio-visual to further his investigations and research; thinking of them as alternative compositions of “sculptural shapes” and a way of critically mapping existence.

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His series The Black Water was an opportunity to further his investigation into shape and form whilst also using the action of carving as a cathartic and reflective process. A series of sculptures made in opposition to the previous years' work, facing away from direct carving and its curved forms and instead leaning into restriction of shape, limiting himself only to straight lines and angular voids. Realising the necessity of physical action in the process of cauterising the wounds from the voyage along the Cornish coast during the height of COVID-19 aboard the hundred year old lugger, Ibis (FY 519).

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Currently, Nathan is working on a new series of works yet to be titled. Visually developing an investigation that articulates his innately spiritual human experience and the presence of flow state / mindfullness in the everyday. Expanding outwards into old and new processes, utilising a plethora of media types. He hopes this project will be an exhibtion in the near future. Alongside this new series, Henton is taking on commisions and seeking gallery representation locally and further afield.

 

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