Henry Ward 英国，生于1971年
Henry Ward 是一位艺术家、作家和教育者，其创作关注制作行为、物质性以及抽象与具象之间的相互作用。他在伦敦生活和工作，作品涵盖绘画、素描和小型雕塑，体现出一种挑战传统绘画结构的动态方法。他的创作在三个不同的空间中展开——厨房餐桌、花园小屋和工作室——每个空间都在持续的创造、直觉与打磨过程中发挥着关键作用。
Ward 作品的核心是对绘画内部结构的探索。他的构图通过叠加与并置的过程构建而成，几何形状、图形化笔触与流畅的姿态性笔触在微妙的平衡中共存。色彩在他的绘画中起着决定性作用，大胆的色调与出人意料的和谐加剧了秩序与无序之间的张力。他对表面与结构的处理令人想起 Philip Guston 晚期作品的雕塑感，形与颜料在其中处于持续的协商状态。
Ward 的小型雕塑作品被称为 Kitchen Table Sculptures，为他的创作提供了另一个维度。这些物件由城市漫步中收集的现成材料制成，处于真实与抽象的交汇处，弥合了二维与三维之间的鸿沟。这些形体带有集合艺术般的特质，反映出他对平衡、楔合以及对比材料之间相互作用的持续兴趣。它们是其绘画的延伸，强化了他不同媒介作品之间在物质与观念上的联系。
他的 Shed Paintings——在花园小屋中创作的一系列纸上作品——以即时性与直觉性的创作为特征。这些作品完成迅速，常被反复覆盖重画，捕捉到 Ward 创作过程中原始而未经过滤的能量，在这里，具象让位于绘画行为本身。小屋是物质探索的空间，颜料的生命在此至关重要，形体从对媒介本能的、姿态性的投入中浮现。这些作品常作为工作室中更大构图的组成部分，Ward 将它们重新组合，融入大型多联画中，体现出一种拼图式的形色处理方式。
相比之下，工作室则为沉思以及与画面的持续交流提供了空间。尽管 Ward 的创作始终植根于自发性，他的工作室作品却在较长时间内逐步发展，从而能够更深入地追问画面结构。建筑与人物元素叠加在抽象平面之上，打破了传统构图，为作品注入运动与演变之感。
Ward 对当代绘画的贡献获得广泛认可，其作品曾入选 The Football Art Prize （2022）、 The Aesthetics of Enchantment in Abstract Art （2022）和 Lost in Abstraction （2021）等重要展览。他多次入围 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 短名单，并于2021年入选 Contemporary British Painting Prize 长名单。他的首部重要出版物 Shed Paintings – Henry Ward （Hato Press，2021）收录了101件纸上作品，并附有 Ben Street 的文章。2025年，由 Anomie 出版、题为 Bethany的专著将探讨 Ward 在 The Albers Foundation 的驻留经历及其创作的演变，Fritz Horstman、Jonathan Watkins 等人撰稿。
除艺术创作外，Ward 在艺术教育和策展领域也发挥了关键作用。作为 Freelands Foundation 的总监，他倡导支持当代画家的项目，包括于2020年创办 Freelands Painting Prize。他的策展与教育项目，如在柏林 Martin Gropius Bau 举办的 Assembly （2018、2021），探索了公众参与艺术的新方式。
Henry Ward 的作品本质上是对颜料与形式可能性的持续探究。他层叠的、建筑般的构图与雕塑感，揭示出一种以过程为导向的、对物质性与平衡的探索。正如 Rosa JH Berland 所言，Ward 的方法植根于“对材料的包裹，并与形状、外形、肌理和色彩的平衡与‘楔合’相并置”。正是通过这一炼金术般的过程，Ward 的艺术获得了独特的能量，在制作行为本身中不断展开。
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简历
1971年生。现生活和工作于伦敦
个展
“Engine Room” m2 Gallery, London 2024
“Medusa & Other Stories” London Art Fair, Kittoe Contemporary, London 2024
“From Woolwich” Oasis, Frinton on Sea 2023
“Baffle” Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
“Abracadabra” AMP Gallery, London, 2018
“Henry Ward” Stark Gallery, London, 2004
“Henry Ward – Paintings and Drawings” North Bank Gallery, London, 1995
部分群展
Cubitt Invites, Cubitt Studios & Gallery, London 2024
“G.R.I.T” Kunstpunkt, Berlin and Drawing Projects UK, Dundee 2024
Wells Contemporary 2024, Wells 2024
“Concrete Abstract” Terrace Gallery, London, 2024
“Knot – Rachael Causer & Henry Ward” Stone Space, London 2024
“Carnevale – Friendly Little Monsters” Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023
“Don’t Look Back” Vivienne Roberts Projects, London 2023
“Look Both Ways – Dan Preece & Henry Ward” Kittoe Contemporary, Curious Kudu, London 2023
“Colour, Texture, Substance, No Name” Warbling Collective, Kingsgate Space, London 2023
“A Little Closer” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2023
“Shapeshifters” Irving Contemporary, Oxford, 2023
“Small is Beautiful XL” Flowers Gallery, London, 2022
“Swamp Legends” Terrace Gallery, London, 2022
“The Aesthetics of Enchantment in Abstract Art” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2022 – 2023
“on Surface – Perspectives on Painting” Messums London, 2022
Beep Painting Biannual 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2022
“A Generous Space 2” The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2022
“Roam” Rebecca Gilpin & Henry Ward, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 2022
“The Football Art Prize” Touchstones, Rochdale then touring 2022
“A Generous Space” Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, 2021 – 2022
“Lost in Abstraction 1, 2, 3” Henry Ward & Mark Wright, curated by Alistair Hicks, Aleph Contemporary, London 2021
“Oxlade Soup” co-curated with Karl Bielik and Angela Johnson , Terrace Gallery, London, 2021
“Your Foot in my Face” curated by Dan Howard-Birt, Kingsgate Space, London, 2021
“This Year’s Model Part III” Studio 1.1, London, 2021
“Swimming Backwards” Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2021
“Studio Confetti” curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London, 2021
Drawing Biennial 2021, The Drawing Room, London, 2021
“Without Borders” Elysium Gallery, Swansea then touring to Norway, , USA, Canada, Venice and Japan, 2021 -22
Wells Contemporary 2020, Wells 2020
“Way Out” La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Lès-Reims France 2020
Beep Painting Biannual 2020, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2020
“Binary” Shift, Cardiff and Terrace Gallery, London, 2020-2022
“This Year’s Model Part II” Studio 1.1 Gallery, London, 2020
“6 Days in December”, curated by Martin Gayford, Thameside Gallery, London 2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2019 – 2020
“A Tapered Teardrop” curated by Karl Bielik, Terrace Gallery, London 2019
“Fully Awake 4.6” Edinburgh, 2019
“Paint” PS Mirabel, Manchester, 2019
“This Year’s Model Part II” Studio 1.1 Gallery, London, 2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2018 – 2019
“This Year’s Model Part I” Studio 1.1 Gallery, London, 2018
驻留
Stephen Swindells Studios, Burgundy, France 2024
The Albers Foundation, Connecticut USA 2023
Wolverhampton Art School 2019
收藏
Soho House, London
Department for Education, London
评论、文章与出版物
“Baffle” review AN Magazine https://www.a-n.co.uk/reviews/henry-ward-baffle/
“From Gutter to Gallery” Art Daily 2021 https://artdaily.cc/news/137087/From-gutter-to-gallery–Aleph-Contemporary-exhibits-works-by-Henry-Ward-#.YOwugBNKiYA
Shed Paintings – Henry Ward (including essay by Ben Street) Hato Press
Henry H Ward – Glorious Like Guston https://lonelyocean.art/
“Coronavirus – How artists are depicting the lockdown” Ella Wills, BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52296886
“Self help is key for an art world in lockdown” Laura Cumming, The Observer https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/29/self-help-is-key-for-art-world-in-lockdown
“A Tapered Teardrop” Terrace Gallery by Geoff Hands https://fineartruminations.com/
“About Abstraction – an interview with Henry Ward” Chris Francis https://www.artpedagogy.com/about-abstraction-henry-ward.html
教育背景
Middlesex University, PhD, 2013
Goldsmiths College, PGCE Secondary (Art), 1999
Winchester School of Art, BA Hons (Fine Art), 1993
Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, Foundation Diploma, 1990
http://www.henryhward.com/