A little about Venn Miles
 

Between his experience with fashion design, a degree in Professional and Creative Writing and whilst currently completing a Bachelors of Visual Art, Venn Miles still finds the time to be a member of the HAKE family, both working at the gallery and as a represented Artist. He is a self taught visual artist from a very young age, learning from his father and practicing on the Gadigal Land of the Eora Nation (Sydney).

Inspired by post modern and political themes, Venn’s practice focuses on figurative and still life subjects. Working in oil, charcoal and ink, Venn’s figurative work challenges notions of the beautiful and the grotesque, pushing beyond the physical human form to represent the soul and psyche.

We can't wait for you to see the show he's curated for HAKE, a little sneak peak from contributing Artists Kane Lehanneur, Neil Tomkins, and Musonga Mbogo below. 

‘Living Room Opera’

'Whatever you’ve been told about art imitating life or vice versa; that’s a lie. I don’t know why everyone lied, but Art and Life are one and the same. Cut from the same cloth. When one smiles in the mirror, the other scowls back. And everyone’s just fucking singing in this Living Room Opera. 
 

Finding the seams between art and life and showing off the hidden edges where they’re joint together in aeternum. Before the landscape painting there was just a vista, the still life was always just a scattered night stand or a forgotten load of unwashed dishes, and any villain of any Opera is really just that guy you fucking hate. The only difference that art makes is now that guy you loathe is immortalized and kept to vex you forever. 
 

Living Room Opera, curated by Venn Miles for HAKE house of Art, dispelling the rumours that art and life are different. That either one is more or less magical than the other. Neither Artist nor God has any more power in making something perfect.'- Words by Venn Miles

Catalogue available on Wednesday 19th June at 8:30am