Author: Brian
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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sub…
The opening up of a picture was always a priority for me, presenting a puzzle to be considered rather than a conclusion reached.
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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.
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Displaced
A meditation on what could make the world a better place; if enough people only wanted it to be.
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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…
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Links
The links below are artists from turn-berlin shows. Some are still live some have closed and blue never had a link
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Berlin
This work was heavily manipulated in the computer from photographs I took on the streets of Berlin.
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Façades
Making montage on computer and mixing paint over the prints was unusual in 2006, not any more.
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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.