BORN: - - UK, 1979 - - - - - LIVES/WORKS: - - London, UK - - - - - EDUCATION: - - 2002-2005 BA Hons Fine Art University West of England - - - SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - - 2009 A Dressing Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool - - - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2009 Jerwood Drawing Prize Touring exhibition, UK 2009 Salon 09 Matt Roberts Arts, Touring exhibition, UK 2009 Kings, Gods & Mortals Hamish Morrison Gallerie, Berlin 2008 The Painting Room Transition Gallery, Touring exhibition, UK 2008 These Living Walls of Jet Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool 2007 Celeste Art Prize Touring exhibition, UK 2007 John Moores Painting Prize Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2007 Expedia National Gallery, London - - - AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: - 2008 Zoo Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY: - - 2009 Beasts: Book 2. Fantagraphics Books, USA   2009 John Moores 24. NML, Liverpool - - - - COLLECTIONS: - Private Collections - ARTIST STATEMENT Henny Acloque's narrative paintings reference old masters such as Bosch and Durer and explore the fragility of life. Layers of paint and reflective varnish create timeless, evanescent landscapes that encapsulate curious creatures and symbolic, recurring motifs drawn from memories and myths The majority of paintings are seductively small, which heightens the sinister frisson in the work and spectral space within all of the paintings provides a contemplative portal for considering self in relation to other.