www.stevehines.net
www.stevehines.net
www.stevehinessouthall.net
www.saatchiart.com/stevehines
I work freely and intuitively across a variety of mediums, responding to what impacts on me physically or emotionally and to what I see happening or not happening in the world. I enjoy manipulating, distorting or reassembling existing objects - changing their meaning and disabling their function. What remains is a useless artwork, which is perfectly acceptable: – ‘art for arts sake’, (Nietzsche) isn’t just ‘art for arts sake’ – art doesn’t have to have a purpose, to moralise or to be useful. The creation of artworks from the readymade may also be viewed as a sort of conservation in that objects are plucked from obscurity, after their usefulness has expired perhaps, then treated with care and attention. Recent sculptural work has been created using found materials that are developed as assemblages or reconfigurations based on formal or art historical references. My practice ranges from traditional aesthetic concerns with occasional modernist references, through to agit-prop or activist responses to systems of authority where I challenge conventions, or accepted approaches, and comfortable positions. These conventions are examined, interrogated, dissected or critiqued, through an ironic or subversive approach to question etant donnes, (that which is given). Nietzsche describes a state of affairs which is recognisable today and of particular interest to me:
The tension, the extension between the extremes is getting smaller and smaller today – the extremes themselves are shrinking down to similarity in the end.
Raids of an Untimely Man, Twilight of the Idols
There is also a conscious art historical connection in several works with open acknowledgement to iconic figures such as Marcel Duchamp or Piet Mondrian for example.. These references are regarded as hors d’oeuvres for the creative process and response. It is impossible to escape the influence of art history and so it is only logical to draw inspiration and expand on previous ideas. Romantic notions of revolution, anarchy and subversion are also relevant ingredients, but that is all they are. I realise the futility, hopelessness and ineffectiveness of these notions in today’s spectacle obsessed, capitalist, consumer driven society. Despite the cynicism my practice is buoyed by the injection of a healthy amount of optimism and humour.
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Qualifications and training
2011 - PGCE, Post-compulsory education., Institute of Education, London
2006 - MA Fine Art, Byam Shaw @ Central Saint Martins, London
2001 - BTEC Professional Development Certificate in Computer Applications for Art and Design, Newcastle College, Newcastle upon Tyne
1998 - 1st Class BA(Hons) Degree in Photography, Video & Digital Imaging, University of Sunderland, .
1995 - BTEC National Diploma in Design, (Photography), South Nottingham College, Nottingham
Solo exhibitions
2016 - 'SILVER FOX'. The Platform Project, London
2014 - Camberwell Arts Festival. Selected for ‘Luck Dip’ commission from open submission. Burgess Park, London - http://www.stevehinessouthall.net/camberwell-arts-festival.html
2013 - Present, (Venice mask) for 55th Venice Biennale, Six locations in Venice, Each district of Venice
2009 - Cockney Rejects, WORKING ROOMS. www.workingrooms.co.uk, London
2004 - RED3, Red Box Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002 - faith, hope & charity', Cullercoats Metro Station, Cullercoats
2002 - We Are Time, Saville Exchange, North Shields
2000 - We Are Time, Adhoc Gallery, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear
1999 - A Taste for Art, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1999 - Face Facts. Exhibition of work produced by children during Photographic Image Residency and Workshops, Globe Gallery, North Shields
Group exhibitions
2019 Laboratory of Dissent 2 - Inside/Outside. Symposium & Video film exhibition. The Screen, Winchester School of Art, UK
2019 Beyond a dull moment. Collaborative project & residency between 12 artists at a Grade 1 listed building in Hackney, London. Included public open access. Organised by artist Eugene Macki.
2019 Selected as one of 3 finalists for an exhibition of sculpture in response to the theme 'the shape of the public health' held at The Royal Society for the Public Health HQ in London
2019 Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Exhibition of members and fellows. London
2019 Parallel Lines: Drawing & Sculpture. Drawing responses by members of the Royal Society of Sculptors to sculptures from the Ingram Collection. The Lightbox, Woking, London, UK
2019 Mechanical Circus. 3rd on 3rd Gallery, Reg Lenna Center for The Arts, Jamestown, NY USA
2018 Reshaping Spontaneity. Micro-residency with artist Eugene Macki at NN ContemporaryProject Space, Northampton
2018 Forms Assembled in the Light, The KPP Prize for Art, Architecture & Design. Sunny Bank Mills Gallery, Leeds
2017 Unforgettable (You), NR PROJECT, London
2016 - CHROMA Blue exhibition. Peckham, London
2016 - Pavilion Open, Penarth, Cardiff
2014 Tomorrow: You Have No Events Scheduled For Tomorrow. RADIANT, Plymouth
2014 -PLEASE STAND BY. Video screening event, Chisenhale Studios, London
2013 - UNPERFORMING. Group show by invitation from The Departure Foundation, Gracechurch Street, London
2013 - VOID Open, Hoxton Arches Gallery, London
2012 - Boeing Way to Gas Street: Artists from opposite ends of The Grand Union Canal, Organised by the Departure Foundation, Gas Street, Birmingham
2012 - Journeys Across Media: Time Tells: Temporal Excavatons in Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Reading
2012 - MICROCOSM, Departure Foundation, Leeds
2012 - Salon Art Prize 2012, Griffin Art Gallery, London
2012 - Salon Art Prize 2012, Matt Roberts Art Gallery, London
2011 - EL PERRO SEMIHUNDIDO, LITRO Osteria, London
2011 - Optica Festival Madrid 2011, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2010 - BHVU Open Summer Exhibition, Basket House Village Universe, London
2010 - Private/Public Gallery 320, Bethnal Green, London
2010 - PRUSSIAN PROJEKTE: HOLES , Digital Broadway, Broadway Cinema, Nottingham
2009 - One Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau,, Switzerland. www.oneminute.ch
2009 - untitled (unspectacular' installation at Athens Video Art Festival, www.athensvideoartfestival.gr, Athens, Greece
2008 - Come Out & Play, apexart - www.apexart.org, New York, USA
2008 - Multichannel, ArtSway, www.artsway.org.uk, Sway, Hampshire, England
2008 - One Minute Film & Video Festival, Aarau,, Switzerland. www.oneminute.ch
2008 - Optica: International Festival of Video Art. www.opticafestival.com, FNAC Callao, Madrid & Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijon, Gijon & Madrid, Spain
2008 - Vernacular Spectacular, part of Folkestone Triennial Fringe Festival, Folkestone Funicular., Organised and curated by Club Shepway. www.clubshepway.com
2007 - Artist as Activist:International Performance Art Event , Screening of 3 video films. Tokyo, Japan
2007 - Winter Lightworks Festival. High street shop window exhibition. Organised by Allerdale Borough Council, Workington, Cumbria
2006 - In the Flesh: Live Art, Theatre & Dance festival, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth
2006 - MARK, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Devon
2006 - Parcours #2. Organised by Espace Croise, Lille, Maison Falleur, Cambrai, Northern France
2006 - Point of View # 2, Dunkerque LAAC, organised by Espace Croise, Lille, Northern France
2006 - PULSAR International multi-media festival, Museo Alejandro, Caracas, Venezuela
2006 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin , Cinema du Monde. Screening of 'ANYONE', Paris, France
2005 - Eye for Art, CuratorSpace Gallery, London
2005 - Grounds for Designs, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, London
2005 - Island Film & Video Festival 2005, Prenelle Gallery, London
2005 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, 'Europe' Metro Station, Paris
2005 - Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
2004 - '10 x 10', Part of 'The Independent' at the Liverpool Biennial
2004 - 'ARTCONCEPT' , St Petersburg, Russia
2004 - Artists Books, www.zyarts.com
2004 - exposure 2, Candid Arts Centre, London
2004 - Home, Hotbath Gallery, Bath
2004 - INPORT 2004, Tallin, Estonia
2004 - Multiplus Reloaded, Saltburn Gallery, Saltburn-by-the-Sea
2004 - Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, La Grande Halle, La Villette, Paris, France
2003 - Artsparkle, The Corn Exchange, Leeds
2003 - Multiplus, The Green Market, Newcastle upon Tyne
2003 - zeit[raume], showing of '8x8', Globe Gallery, North Shields
2002 - Full length version of 8x8 , screened at 291 Gallery, London. One night event featuring performance, video and installation.
2002 - Harvey's Bodies, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
2002 - strip, Union Clothes shop window, Newcastle upon Tyne
2002 - What's in the Paper Bag?, part of 'The Independent' at the Liverpool Biennial
2001 - the grass is greener, Cuckoo Farm Studios Sculpture Trail, Colchester, Essex
2001 - untitled, CyberAxis Gallery, Axis Artists
2001 - uz-iz-oz, Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington, Installation of short film and photographs made during a summer workshop programme
2000 - and now, Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland
1999 - Art in Northern Churches, Touring Exhibition, starting at Hartlepool Art Gallery, Teeside
1999 - Flashpoint, Globe Gallery, North Shields
1999 - G2108 5147M, The Hancock Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne, Part of Vane '99
1999 - plus one, The Buddle Arts Centre, Wallsend, North Tyneside
1999 - Run Rabbit Run, Waywood Gallery, Newcastle and Allenheads Centre for Contemporary Art, Allenheads, Near Hexam
