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Simon Hennessey

Simon Hennessey (Born 1973) is active/lives in England.  Simon Hennessey is known for Photorealist painting.

Artist Statement:

My paintings may be viewed as a photographic representation of reality, but in truth my artwork transcends into its own abstraction of reality. I do not adhere to a true mimetic depiction of a photograph, I use the camera only as a source to assist me with gathering information.

My process of adding or removing detail, altering depth, adding textures, form and colour values and their relationship within the painting, allows me to create an illusion of a reality not seen in any photographic source. My Paintings therefore appear clearer and more distinct than a photograph.


“Hennessey’s striking paintings reproduce images of facial features in extreme close up. In a way it is like those television programs in which we only see the eyes or the lips of the informant, in order to obscure their identity. Except that Hennessey is not trying to obscure identity so much as to de-personalise the people in his pictures, he wants us somehow to assess   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1737 characters.]  Artist bio

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