Heini King
Heini King
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Male Figure, 2020
Dipytch (Set of two drawings)
Charcoal and ink on paper
42 x 29.5 cm each
About this Work
King has spoken of finding the challenge of translating movement into a mixed media drawing endlessly fascinating. She approaches drawing the body as an encounter with, rather than a study of, the life model, incorporating collaboration with the figure into her practice in order to cultivate a shared bodily presence. For the artist, the human body is motion; even a still pose has a charge of intense energy. A Female Figure and A Male Figure are two diptychs composed of original mixed-media drawings picturing the human body as movement in time.
About Heini King
Heini King is a mixed-media artist based in London. King gained her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins. Her paintings, mixed-media works and performances are all informed by psychoanalytic theory and the notion of self in relation to others. The work is often inspired by encounters with the other, with dreams, and with memory, and often contains traces of the presence of the materials, the artist’s hand, and the tools and processes used. As an artist, King is particularly interested in interconnectedness and how creativity can enhance human experience both on a personal and collective level.
King’s practice centres on the space of creativity – the “potential space” or “protospace” as Winnicot and Kristeva respectively designate it. Often autobiographical, her work understands selfhood as an embodied reality always constituted in relation to other bodies. For the artist, the encounter is a site for productivity, and this manifests itself in different forms in her work, which typically captures the body in movement.
Founded on the Kristevan notion that the subject's identity is continually in process between the semiotic and the symbolic, King’s work concerns itself with intertwining inner experience and outer world. The potential space that she seeks to picture is located between the physical world and the psychological realm. Repetition, variation and shifts in perception are central to the space that the work attempts to create.
Education
2018- 2020 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins
2017-2018 Foundation Year in Fine Art, Hampstead School of Art
2002-2008 BA and MA, University of Helsinki, Craft Science and Educational Sciences. Fine Art in 1-year study exchange at Aalto University School of Art and Design
Exhibitions
2020
“Together alone 51°33'54.8"N 0°10'04.6"W / 51.565226, -0.167940”, bern69, Hampstead, London
”London Grads Now –Moving Away Moving Closer” Saatchi Gallery
”Channel” Digital performance by Sian Fan X Social Convention
”Together - 2 Metres Apart” Harwichspace, Harwich, UK
”Introductions” Slash Arts: www.artland.com/galleries/slash-london@slash.arts (on-line group exhibition)
”Becomings” APT Gallery, London
”The Big Space” The Street, Central Saint Martins Granary Building, London
”SALE” Tate Exchange, TATE Modern (group event)
2019
”Conversations in Migration, Health and Art” Leaves of Absence Gallery, London
Gail’s Bakeries’ window displays, London
”Colours of Pain”. Imperial College London, Centre for Languages, Culture and Communication Gallery
”Postgraduate Art Auction”, Lethaby Gallery, London
”Migrant Health and Art workshop” Rich Mix, London
”Carnival of Contemplation” Dalston, London
”We are here we are” Apiary Studios, London
”Come Together” Tate Exchange, TATE Modern
2018
”Hampstead Art Festival”, London
2009-2010
”Intervention Gallery”, Kensal Green cemetery, London
2004-2007
Art based project involved with the homeless and those with addiction problems, Helsinki, Finland