Nathan Henton

Nathan Henton

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Degree: BA (hons) Fine Art
University: Falmouth University
Graduation Year: 2021

New Blood Art Commentary

A block of wood, a single block of wood is the main component of many of Nathan Henton’s sculptures. Sometimes a stand is added to the base of the wood, but as viewers, we confront tall, vertical upright forms. We look for sense, for logic, and the sculptures give us clues. Carved marks and cut-outs jostle against the wood’s knots and grains for attention. This back-and-forth between natural form and sculptural intervention, while fundamental to our viewing experience, is also intrinsic to Henton’s production process, where he speaks of ‘catharsis and slow revelation’. As we look, forms reveal themselves. They hint at architecture, nature, the landscape, and of the making process. The finished sculptures waver between acts of intervention and revelation, a balance that ensures that as the viewer passes around the sculpture, there is always something new to see.  

Artist Statement

It may not be seen within the works but I use sculpture and carving as a way to understand the world around me and the past/present experiences I am having/ had. The act of creation, for me, is one of catharsis and slow revelation, a bodily release and beating out of trauma. 

I want to extend myself, expend myself, into the seemingly inanimate.

I want to create haptic ‘ritournellising’ shapes and voids within space.

Group Exhibitions

(2023) FORM Art Festival, Morgans, Princess Pavilion, Falmouth

(2023) Holy Moly Exhibition, Bosuval Studios, Penzance

(2022) FORM Art Festival, Morgans, Princess Pavilion, Falmouth

(2021) BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show, Falmouth School of Art, Falmouth

(2021) Making Landfall, Portmanteau Gallery, Bridport

(2021) A Sense of Place, Gallery 9, Tate St Ives, St Ives

(2019) NOVA, The Poly, Falmouth

(2018) PRAXIS, The Gallery, IOP, Penryn Campus, Penryn

(2018) JINX, Bahama Mamas, Falmouth

(2017) A Space Within, The Gallery, IOP, Penryn Campus, Penryn