2009 - 2012
Colchester School Of Art
2009 - 2012
Colchester School Of Art
: MA sculptural Practice
: 27 Jul 2014 - 9 Aug 2014
MA group show at the Minories, Colchester
: Visions of Sudbury
: 1 Sep 2013 - 1 Oct 2014
group show at St Peters Church, Sudbury
: Orton Reynolds Gallery group show
: 1 Jun 2013 - 1 Jul 2013
group exhibition at the Orton Reynolds Gallery in Eye, Suffolk
: Route
: 18 Jul 2012 - 5 Aug 2012
group exhibition at Free Range, Truman Brewery
: Confining the Gigantic
: 5 May 2012 - 21 May 2014
group exhibition at the minories, Colchester
: Hennessy x 3
: 11 Aug 2011 - 1 Sep 2011
solo exhibition at Gallery 47 in Sudbury
: Liam Hennessy - solo exhibition
: 3 Jul 2011 - 3 Aug 2011
Held at the Quay Theatre in Sudbury, Suffolk
As a teenager I started out as a printmaker, and a lot of the processes and techniques I picked up there I have carried over into my painting and sculpture. Screenprinting in particular involves working with flat planes of colour and building up images in multiple layers, and I use this approach in much of my current work; In the end I found that painting offered me a more direct and less mediated way of working.
I am instinctively drawn to abstraction in art because of the freedom it implies, and my work is influenced in particular by the formal experimentation of 20th century abstract painting and sculpture. My work is created through a long process of layering, readjustment, and repainting until a kind of formal coherence or balance is achieved; I am very interested in the way that the eye moves around an image and I like to think of each work as a map to be explored.
I tend to work intuitively without a clear idea of where each piece will end, preferring to let the process itself direct the finished form of the work.
I studied for a degree in fine art in my twenties followed by a master's degree in sculpture. For the last few years I have been working at Cuckoo farm studios in Essex, (an old farm converted into thirty art studios) where I work as a full time artist.
