About
After studying photography, design and printmaking, Francis van Hout worked as a graphic artist, photographer, animation director and technical director on a variety of film, television, multimedia projects. Returning to Christchurch he studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts where he won the Sawtell-Turner Prize for Painting. In 2015 his work was recognised in the Parkin Drawing Award and as a finalist the National Contemporary Art Award.
Van Hout fills his artworks with playful dark humour and references to art history, city making and himself. Though often planned digitally, his paintings retain humanistic, painterly details, such as in the deliberate retention of brush strokes and variations in the surface which balance the digital visual language with geometric abstract oil painting.
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Read about Francis van Hout’s art in our City Art Reader interviews on his 2023 exhibition a.d.o, 2022 exhibition Disillusioned Thinker, 2021 exhibition re:Tyre-Meant, 2020 exhibition The Rolling Moon and 2019 exhibition Green Field, Grey Field.
