10 March / 8 April 2018
ROBERT HAGUE
JOY

“Notionally this is a look at the myth of Icarus but more personally it is about my father who died in May (my childhood home was beside the airport where he worked) and what he knew and didn’t about the perils of art and life, and how he unwittingly led me to things both of great value and things of peril. In giving Icarus the freedom to fly close to the gods, Daedalus also killed his son. We like to blame Icarus but did he have any real choice. It may not be possible to know the ecstasy that drove him high above the clouds, but we can imagine the fall.” 

HAGUE is an artist who brings an impeccable skill set to the contemporary art scene. Throughout his work he revels in ambiguity, simultaneously conveying elements of the heavy and light, the fixed and fluid, the brutal and gentle. HAGUE works across numerous media including printmaking, video, painting and installation but with a focus on sculpture in both stone and metal.

From his studio in Newport, Melbourne, HAGUE has exhibited widely and is represented in major public collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria. In 2010 his work was the subject of a ten year retrospective at Deakin University (Burwood). Recent exhibitions include ‘Common Ground’ at NGV International, ‘Porcelaine’ at Turner Galleries (Perth), the Blake Prize (awarded the Blake Residency), ‘CRUSH’ at Fehily Contemporary (Melbourne), the ‘Wynne Prize’ at AGNSW and ‘Inaugural’ at Nicholas Projects (Melbourne).

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