Kiron Hussain | The Work

 

Statement

“The perverse and smudgy back-of-the-brain terror of filthy, normal living is attractive to my artist's eye; I try to make something gorgeous and yet gut clutching out of it – this is my work; beautiful aberrations. I want to produce in the viewer a refreshingly disturbing experience… just too pretty to be horrific… eyemeltingly abnormal and perfectly impenetrable to the conscious self. As Britons we sit, shell-suited, heads swilling with vinification, lipless and lounging as a nation; wedged into the three-piece suite, backwards-vomiting our daily diatribe, brains bubbling under, shrivelling in the light of the cathode ray, living an imitation of life — yet every single head jangles with neuroses; pustulating out of the shadows; looming massive, bulging eyes, lolling tongues, foaming silently; licentious drudgery, deep dark jarring irony, beautiful aberrations; the human is a tangled up objets d'art – and every single piece of work I make is a modern portrait of one such human; art imitating art.”

Born 1988, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Kiron Hussain attained a foundation degree in Fine Art Practice in 2011 at his local college; Newcastle College

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Selected Awards

2011 London Short Film Festival ’11 {{Mayfair}} Best Experimental Film

2011 Lausanne Underground Film Festival ‘11 {{Switzerland}} Prix du Court Métrage

2011 London Underground Film Festival ‘11 {{Bloomsbury}} Short Film Award

 

Selected Screenings

2011 Institute of Contemporary Arts {{Mayfair}} London Short Film Festival

2011 Melbourne Underground Film Festival ‘11 {{Australia}}

2011 Camagȕey 4^th International Video Art Festival ‘11 {{Cuba}}

2011 Split Film Festival ‘11 {{Croatia}}

2011 B–Movies, Underground & Trash ‘11 {{Amsterdam}}

2011 Sydney Underground Film Festival ‘11 {{Australia}}

2011 New Screen New–Castle {{Newcastle Upon Tyne}}

2011 The Horse Hospital {{Bloomsbury}} London Underground Film Festival

 

2012 Vaudeville Park {{New York}} Vaudeville Video

2012 Oslo Screen Festival {{Oslo}}

 

Selected Exhibitions

2011 Hex Pixel Gallery {{Kansas USA}} “First Friday” one night solo exhibition

2011 Bashimi Art House {{Salzburg Austria}} Two month long group show