Author: Brian
  • current work may change

    current work may change

    Current work is the work I am exploring now I like to live with it for some time, and often make changes, I also recycle work all the time.

  • Metaphysics of Perception
  • The Lint Mill

    The Lint Mill

    Last June I stayed at Lint Mill, had a very relaxing time, wonderful place all round, fantastic food and great hospitality but best of all Debby and Colins ethos of sustainability and caring about the future we leave for others.

  • Instrumentality Grids
  • Multifaceted Focus
  • Multifarious Patterns
  • Metaphor of Mirage
  • Near Polychrome
  • near monochrome

    near monochrome

    Work that from a distance has one colour or shade, but closer has a detail of similar colours or shades, This minimal approach I am finding works as well as overloading which I have used many times in the past. The abstract pattens produced are stimulating to the imagination at the same time as being…

  • Into white

    Into white

    Into white started as a recycling of old work just covering up with white paint to restart painting, after the first coat, the uneven finish was giving me a surface that could be developed rather than restarted.

  • Beneath

    Beneath

    The new series of work called Beneath is work coming directly from the subconscious and while working with the underwater, reflection and refraction I can depict a world both unclear and dream like that looks fresh to the eye as it is not so familiar to most people.

  • sub…

    sub…

    The opening up of a picture was always a priority for me, presenting a puzzle to be considered rather than a conclusion reached.

  • Provisions
  • Evocations

    Evocations

    Indian Wedding Dance

  • World view
  • Borders

    Borders

    Border are a man made concept and we are constantly being made to think as them as places where we are under threat especially by the far right people like Trump with his hate speech. The reality is most borders are very tranquil out of the way places often waste land with very little value.

  • Displaced

    Displaced

    A meditation on what could make the world a better place; if enough people only wanted it to be.

  • News from Everywhere

    News from Everywhere

    Brian Hackney is making artworks about contemporary life using mainly found images of moments of dialogue and exchange. Street encounters, outside spaces, markets, dance competitions, gallery openings to street protests. The places where mainly non-personal interactions happen. Translating the everyday into a meditation on the global nature of the world today.Using technology to mediate the…

  • drawings

    drawings

    The drawings are mark making with no plan they just happen.

  • Links

    Links

    The links below are artists from turn-berlin shows. Some are still live some have closed and blue never had a link

  • turn-berlin gallery space
  • Berlin

    Berlin

    This work was heavily manipulated in the computer from photographs I took on the streets of Berlin.

  • Façades

    Façades

    Making montage on computer and mixing paint over the prints was unusual in 2006, not any more.

  • Brian Photo Montage Exposition

    Brian Photo Montage Exposition

    Brian Exposition Photo Montage at the Maison du Parc Saint-Chinian, Open 19 July till 17 September 2005 This was a solo show of eighty prints. All prints are still avalable and are not in limited editions.