Henry is an artist that uses gears and other semi-autonomous systems to create hand-crafted generative art, working primarily with ink, pencil, pastel, bubbles and watercolour.
Experimenting with both traditional and digital mediums for approximately 15 years, Henry’s first interest was portraiture. It was late 2021 when he reintroduced himself to a basic spirograph set.
Drawing with gears married Henry’s passion for the tactile process of drawing and painting with his love for the emergent surprises inherent in generative art.
Since then, he has amassed a large collection of gears and developed further techniques to utilise autonomous and semi-autonomous systems in novel ways to create visual art.
Moments of subjectivity and randomness are introduced into typically rigid systems to ensure each piece is unique, while consciously maintaining a distinct aesthetic that immediately communicates a foundation of rule based systems.
His works are presented as analogues to archaeological finds - not in their materiality, but in their capacity to evoke an embedded history and cultural significance, through a process led heavily by organic discovery and emergence.
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Memberships and Collaborations
Leicester Society of Artists
(Elected 2022)
Co-founder of 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔: a creative collective, founded with Beth Altringer Eagle, to share and promote works with a focus on autonomous and semi-autonomous processes outside of coding.
IOU a Squiggle: a partnership with SquiggleDAO to offer holders a high-quality analogue alternative for displaying Chromie Squiggles.
Experimenting with both traditional and digital mediums for approximately 15 years, Henry’s first interest was portraiture. It was late 2021 when he reintroduced himself to a basic spirograph set.
Drawing with gears married Henry’s passion for the tactile process of drawing and painting with his love for the emergent surprises inherent in generative art.
Since then, he has amassed a large collection of gears and developed further techniques to utilise autonomous and semi-autonomous systems in novel ways to create visual art.
Moments of subjectivity and randomness are introduced into typically rigid systems to ensure each piece is unique, while consciously maintaining a distinct aesthetic that immediately communicates a foundation of rule based systems.
His works are presented as analogues to archaeological finds - not in their materiality, but in their capacity to evoke an embedded history and cultural significance, through a process led heavily by organic discovery and emergence.
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Memberships and Collaborations
Leicester Society of Artists
(Elected 2022)
Co-founder of 𝑨𝒖𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒔: a creative collective, founded with Beth Altringer Eagle, to share and promote works with a focus on autonomous and semi-autonomous processes outside of coding.
IOU a Squiggle: a partnership with SquiggleDAO to offer holders a high-quality analogue alternative for displaying Chromie Squiggles.