The Cat Street Gallery is thrilled to introduce, Henry Hussey and Vanessa Wong in joint exhibition. YOUNG BLOOD will showcase the works of two emerging talents for the first time in a commercial art gallery.
Hussey is a young British artist who studied a MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art. In the process of creating his rich and emotive textile works, Hussey explores his own personal history, challenging significant moments in his life by immortalizing them in layers of fabric and embroidery. Hussey works with textiles for its ability to inhabit the previous generations who have handled them and connect to people in a meaningful way.
Hussey employs many different techniques and marries them into one piece, his largest works are over four metres in length and incorporate dyed fabrics, cardinals robe, table cloth, knitted yarn, printed fabric, embroidered cotton, faux crystals and pearls, sequins, screen-print and acrylic paints
Wong is a young Hong Kong artist who received her Fine Arts Degree from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Her work explores the relationship between the human body and objects of consumerism. Wong illustrates the ideas of human desire and obsession in seductively bright colour. Junk food, high heels, human body parts and organs are woven together to create images that are all at once glamorous, disturbing and strange.
