Hester Finch: Select Works

HESTER FINCH SELECT WORKS

Artist Statement Hester Finch (b. 1981) is a British artist born and bred in London and Leicester.

With an interest in how our day to day lives and relationships are filtered through technology, Hester’s practice plays with the crossover between painting and digital media, often combining digitally printed imagery with traditional analogue mediums such as oil and charcoal. She pulls imagery from myriad sources – from Terminator and Robocop to double-ended horses, dick pics and the male life model – exploring ideas of sex, power, violence and the places where pleasure and disgust meet.

Her more recent work has included a shift toward working with unorthodox supports such as found domestic fabrics, seeking to create an environmentally sustainable practice that is loaded conceptually but light physically.

Hester is currently studying MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and gained her BA Fine Art from the Ruskin School at Oxford University.

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Treasure Map, 2024 Oil, oil bar, UV print on cotton 220 x 180cm £6,000

Snakes and Crosses, 2024 Mixed media on found calico 200 x 135cm £5,000

Dead or alive you’re coming with me, 2024 Oil, gesso, acrylic, charcoal, oil bar and UV print on canvas 180 x 220cm £6,000

One Dollar Bill, 2024 Oil, gesso, plaster, charcoal, oil bar and UV print on canvas 180 x 220cm £6,000

Why did you disobey your program, 2024 Oil, gesso, spray paint, charcoal, oil bar, acrylic and UV print on canvas 180 x 220cm £6,000

The Spare Bed, 2024 Gesso, acrylic, plaster, spray paint and UV print on canvas 120 x 150cm £4,050

Fish Wife, 2024 Mixed media on calico 219.5 x 148cm £5,500

Will You Suck It?, 2024 Gesso, acrylic, and UV print on canvas 130 x 180cm £4,650

I liked getting her drunk for my own sordid purposes. I was a swell guy, 2024 Oil, gesso, plaster, acrylic, oil bar and UV print on canvas 180 x 130cm £4,650

Footloose and Fancy Free, 2024 Oil and print on pillowcase 81 x 50cm £1,950

Kill all your darlings, 2024 Gesso, acrylic, spray paint, soft pastel, oil bar and UV print on canvas 180 x 130cm £4,650

Untitled, 2023 Oil, gesso and spray paint on canvas 245 x 190cm

The Organs would have very quickly suffered a shortage, 2024 Oil, gesso and spray paint on canvas 245 x 190cm £6,525

Post Nut Clarity, 2024 Oil, gesso, plaster, acrylic, oil bar and UV print on canvas 180 x 130cm £4,650

Stag Beetle, 2023 Oil and spray paint on linen laid on panel 16 x 12in. £1,050

Shepherd’s Crook, 2024 Acrylic, gesso and UV print on calico 93 x 76cm (approx.) £TBD

Besides, the adulteress, if she plays her cards right, may evolve into the adventuress, whose status in life, if not in art, has always been that of a free woman, 2024 Oil, gesso, spray paint and UV print on canvas 24.8 x 35.6cm £900

The Ungodly Man Drops Like a Polled Steer (Triptych), 2023 Oil, spray paint and UV print on canvas 70 x 85cm each £2325 each; £6,750 for the triptych

The Inert Space, 2024 Oil and mixed media on linen 30 x 22.5cm £790

Hey Fight, 2023 Oil, acrylic and spray paint on linen 40.6 x 51cm £1,515

Interface, 2024 Oil and UV print on canvas 22.5 x 30cm £790

La Femme Mariée, 2024 Oil and UV print on canvas 50 x 80cm £1,950

Horned figure back again, with pink flame coming out of their head and then there’s nothing, 2024 Oil, gesso, oil bar and UV print on canvas 24.8 x 35.6cm £900

Bent Over (My Mother Said), 2023 Oil, spray paint, household emulsion on canvas, cathode ray television, studio table, film 173 x 160 x 135cm NFS

Second Skin, 2021-22 Oil on linen laid on panel, welded and polished brass 42.2 x 32.2 x 3cm £2,000

HESTER FINCH: CV 1981 2002 2024

Born London BA Fine Art, Ruskin School, Oxford University MA Painting, Royal College of Art

Exhibitions: 2024 Taste, Wonzimer, LA 2024 Liquify, OHSH Projects, London 2024 Things That Matter, AMP Gallery, London 2024 AS SELF AS SELF AS, Asylum Studios Gallery, Woodbridge, Suffolk (curated by David Cooper) 2023 An Exhibition of SMALL Things with BIG Ideas, White Conduit Projects, London (curated by Paul Carey-Kent and Yuki Miyake) 2023 Fall Protection Only, Royal College of Art, London (Co-Curator) 2023 Artist’s Artist, OHSH Projects, London 2023 POST-POST-WAR, OHSH Projects, London 2022 Unsafe At Any Speed, curated by Kenny Schachter, Morton Street Partners, New York 2021 The Holy Grail, OHSH Projects, London 2019 Birth, TJ Boulting, London 2018 Modernist Miniaturists, Partnership Editions, London 2018 London Art Fair, Jessica Carlisle, London 2017 A Table of Elements: Part 4, curated by Graham Crowley, Wickham Market, Suffolk 2017 Mothership, Bruton Art Factory, Somerset 2016 Mothership, Sawmills, London, curated by Elizabeth Byrne and Caroline Halford 2016 London Art Fair, Jessica Carlisle, London 2016 The Portrait of a Lady II, Jessica Carlisle, House of St Barnabas, London (solo) 2016 Art of Mary, Southwell Minster, Nottingham 2015 The Portrait of a Lady I, David Krut Project Space with Jessica Carlisle, New York (solo) 2014 The Summer Saloon 2014, Lion and Lamb, London; touring to Aldeburgh 2014 Alone in Berlin, Jessica Carlisle, London (solo) 2014 The scars are not just skin deep, Cob Gallery, London 2013 Freeze '13, Mayor's Parlour, London 2013 The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Competition, Kings Place Gallery, London 2012 First Come First Served, Lion and Lamb, London 2012 Alter, VEGAS Gallery, London 2012 Pop-Up Circus, Arch Gallery, London 2012 Friends and Family, Rove Gallery, London 2012 Studio Show, Turnmills, London (curated by Andreas Blank) 2012 Kalliphilia, VEGAS Gallery, London 2011 The Other Art Fair, London 2011 Art Market Budapest, Anna Grundberg Ltd., Hungary 2011 THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, L.A. 2010 Hackney WickED Art Festival, London (with Laurence Owen, curated by Phillida Cheetham) IG E W M

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