Hugh Van Schaick
Hugh Van Schaick (b. 1992) is an artist living and working on Gadigal and Wangal land, Australia. His painting process is firmly based in observational drawings and sketches in notebooks, from which compositions are cropped, twisted and found. He studies human bodies as part of the natural contrasts of life: solidity and movement, tension and release, to be heavy or to be held. His work attempts to communicate his conflicted perspectives of being a person in today’s world, where we are disconnected and moving too fast. With differing levels of abstraction and ambiguity his paintings invite slowing down, asking questions, observing in new ways and connecting intimately with different layers of our being.
Van Schaick has exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions, and has been a finalist in art prizes across Australia including the Hawkesbury Art Prize, The Shirl National Youth Portrait Prize and the Hornsby Art Prize in which he won the Emerging Artist and People’s Choice Awards in 2016.
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