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 sculpture. 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”.
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 at sea aboard the lugger Ibis (FY 519). This series can be bought through New Blood Art Gallery.
Currently, Nathan is continuing to carve a new series of works yet to be titled. Visually developing his investigation into shape and form within space, creating a 3D language that better articulates his innately spiritual human experience, the presence of flow state, reaching for something higher, some kindred oneness.
Photo courtesy of John Hersey, 2022
I want to extend myself, expend myself, into the seemingly inanimate.
I want to create haptic ‘ritournellising’ shapes and voids within space.
Education
2017 - 2021
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth University
Group Exhibitions
2023
2023
2022
2021
2021
2021
2019
2018
2018
2017
Holy Moly Exhibition, Bosuval Studios, Penzance
FORM Art Festival, Falmouth
FORM Art Festival, Falmouth
A Sense of Place, Gallery 9, Tate St Ives
Making Landfall, Portmanteau Gallery, Bridport
BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth
NOVA, The Poly, Falmouth
JINX, Bahama Mamas, Falmouth
Praxis, The Gallery | IOP, Penryn Campus, Penryn
A Space Within, The Gallery | IOP, Penryn Campus, Penryn
Publications
2022
CATHARSIS THROUGH CARVING; Exploring the
practice of artist Nathan Henton. Words by Brooke
Wilson, [available online at] https://dateagle.art/
blog_post/catharsis-through-carving/ [also available online at] https://
synesthesia.online/Nathan-Henton-by-Brooke-Wilson