In the five years since we first worked with Kyle Hughes-Odgers, his career has taken a meteoric rise.
From fairly humble beginnings as a street artist, this career has evolved rapidly to include major public art commissions, three children's books, gallery exhibitions in Australia and overseas, and of course the [now international] street art has continued unabated. The spindly limbed characters that populate his artworks have certainly struck a chord with his viewers. They have a universal narrative; they struggle with their lives, carry their burdens, face difficult choices and are not afraid to dream.
Hughes-Odgers stated that, "my work is based on a narrative or a concept that I am interested in exploring. Each individual work adds another story or chapter in the timeline across the greater narrative/body of work over my lifetime. This thread crosses over from my studio paintings to my public artworks and murals, uncommissioned street based works and any of my other projects. I don't try to obscure the individual concepts only explore my natural response to the idea."
In this exhibition, titled Satellite, Hughes-Odgers also explores macro and micro worlds. His abstract patterning, which is taking a more prominent place in his artworks, could be interpreted as the worlds his characters inhabit, seen from afar. Or perhaps, they are merely gem like facets or close-ups of the patterning on the clothes and homes in his speculative world.
This micro versus macro patterning, or "mapping exercise" as he refers to them, was recently put to effective use in one of Hughes-Odgers' most important public commissions, an eighty meter building exterior [including LED lighting design] at the new Perth international airport terminal. Other recent career highlights include winning the Crystal Kite Award [Australia/New Zealand] with Meg McKinlay for their children's book Ten tiny things, a forty meter mural for Murdoch University, a four storey building exterior in Washington DC, an interior mural for Jamie Oliver's Perth restaurant, a four storey mural overlooking the Mitchell Freeway in Perth, solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Berlin, plus his third children's book is due to be published in November 2015.
Thank you to our sponsors
Eagle Bay Brewing Co. & Mane Liquor.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
- TURNER GALLERIES | showcasing contemporary art
at 470 WILLIAM STREET NORTHBRIDGE WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6003 - TURNER GALLERIES HAS NOW CLOSED.
This website is an archived record of the exhibitions and artwork shown at the gallery. - Turner Galleries acknowledges the Whadjuk Nyoongar people as the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters where Turner Galleries is situated, and pay our respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
- Website © 2000-2024 TURNER GALLERIES. All images are © the artists and are not to be used without permission.
- This is a millapede project.
