Noel Hensey

Lives and works in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland

Artist statement

My art practice is concerned with ’openness’, which could be defined as unobstructed perception or meaning. Specifically, it is concerned with mental openness over physical openness. The motivation for the practice is to change and liberate any obscuration’s (cognitive or emotional) to this openness. The main theme within the work is the perceptive dynamics of encountering found objects and situations whereby the viewer’s habitual semantic/judgmental processes are slowed or stopped. My practice is multi-disciplinary and includes; installation, print, photography, sculpture, sound and video. I use methods that complement the theoretical framework of the practice including: assemblage; appropriation (specifically re-interpretation and re-contextualisation); using a combination of optical hardware and software along with traditional mediums, interchanging mediums and site-specific work. The practice is inspired by Buddhist practices and philosophies, and by conceptual and pop art.

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