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DOMINIC MCHENRY creates solid, totemic sculptures that appear timeless, imbued with their own history and meaning. Focusing on geometric forms and repeating patterns, his sculptures justify their existence through their shapes and form, transcending the material used.
Having established his sculpture practice McHenry has been developing a series of paintings using classical techniques; embedded in hand-made frames that are an extension of his geometric totems.
McHenry employs age-old painting techniques, fostering a deep connection with the past. The artist prepares surfaces with rabbit skin gesso, grinds raw pigment and mixes it with egg yolk – methods described as early as the 1st century by Pliny. These materials, drawn directly from nature, bring an organic unpredictability to his work. Each element – wood, pigment, chalk, egg – carries its own character. McHenry arranges them into a state of harmony until, through their imperfections and interplay, balance emerges.
Influenced by folk art, medieval and Renaissance frescoes, as well as modernist design, his work considers alternative histories, imagining how abstract Impressionist ideals might have unfolded in 16th-century Europe.
Through this approach, McHenry’s paintings and sculptures transcend time, existing somewhere between the ancient and the contemporary, the material and the mystical.
