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All works on paper are framed and ready to hang in bespoke
All works on paper are framed and ready to hang in bespoke
wooden box frames painted white behind art glass.
wooden box frames painted white behind art glass.
17 August 2022
2022, acrylic on paper, 42 x 30cm | £660
20 September 2022
2022, acrylic on paper, 42 x 30cm | £660
28 July 2022
2022, acrylic on paper, 42 x 30cm | £660
24 March 2021
2021, acrylic on paper, 42 x 30cm | £660
13 December 2022
2021, acrylic on paper
27 x 19cm framed | £550
23 November 2022
2021, acrylic on paper
27 x 19cm framed | £550
28 August 2021
2021, acrylic on paper
27 x 19cm framed | £550
29 August 2022
2021, acrylic on paper
27 x 19cm framed | £550
Ward explores the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation. A seed of inspiration will kick things off - a colour, a shape, a gesture, a memory - then the journey begins. He’ll often return to a work, painting over, adding, re-working. Over time expressive rhythms of colour and form emerge and repeat.
‘I want to make forms that feel familiar but are unnameable, forms that feel as though we might recognise them but are not “actual things”.’
Ward paints in two distinct sites, his Shed in Queens Road Peckham and his Studio in Woolwich and there is an ongoing dialogue between the way he works in these spaces. Lockdown precipitated a regular daily practice in the refuge of his Shed. This rigorous, regular practice continues to inform the larger canvases now produced in his studio - which offers the time and space to contemplate and build on the rapid and instinctive Shed Paintings.
Training | Middlesex University, PhD, 2013; Goldsmiths College, PGCE Secondary (Art), 1999; Winchester School of Art, BA Hons (Fine Art), 1993; Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design, Foundation Diploma, 1990
Solo Exhibitions | "Medusa & Other Stories" Kittoe Contemporary, London Art Fair 2024; “Baffle” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2021; “Abracadabra” AMP Gallery, London, 2018; “Henry Ward” Stark Gallery, London, 2004; “Henry Ward – Paintings and Drawings” North Bank Gallery, London, 1995.
Selected Group Exhibitions | “A Little Closer” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2023; “Shapeshifters” Irving Contemporary, Oxford, 2023; “Small is Beautiful XL” Flowers Gallery, London, 2022; “Swamp Legends” Terrace Gallery, London, 2022; “The Aesthetics of Enchantment in Abstract Art” Aleph Contemporary, London, 2022; Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, touring UK, 2022 – 2023; “on Surface – Perspectives on Painting” Messums London, 2022; Beep Painting Biannual 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea 2022; “A Generous Space 2” The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2022; “Works on Paper 4” Blue Shop Cottage, London 2022; “Roam” Rebecca Gilpin & Henry Ward, Fitzrovia Gallery, London 2022; “The Football Art Prize” Touchstones, Rochdale then touring 2022; “On Paper” The Paper Museum, Manchester, 2022; “In Awe of You” Liliya Gallery, London, 2022
Residencies | The Albers Foundation, Connecticut USA 2023; Wolverhampton Art School 2019
Collections | Soho House, London
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