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
acrylic, spray paint, soft pastel, oil bar and UV print on canvas
180 x 130cm
£4,650
Gesso,, 2023
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
Untitled Oil, gesso and spray paint on canvas
Post Nut Clarity, 2024
Oil, gesso, plaster, acrylic, oil bar and UV print on canvas
180 x 130cm
£4,650
£1,050
Stag Beetle, 2023 Oil and spray paint on linen laid on panel 16 x 12in.
Shepherd’s Crook, 2024
£TBD
Acrylic, gesso and UV print on calico 93 x 76cm (approx.)
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
£1,950
La Femme Mariée, 2024 Oil and UV print on canvas 50 x 80cm
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 Born London
2002 BA Fine Art, Ruskin School, Oxford University
2024 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)
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