Henry Lees

Henry is an artist who uses gears and other semi-autonomous systems to create hand-crafted generative art, working primarily with ink, pencil, pastel, bubbles and watercolour.

Experimenting with both traditional and digital mediums for approximately 15 years, Henry’s first interest was portraiture. It was late 2021 when he reintroduced himself to a basic spirograph set.

Drawing with gears married Henry’s passion for the tactile process of drawing and painting with his love for the emergent surprises inherent in generative art.

Since then, he has amassed a large collection of gears and developed novel techniques to utilise autonomous and semi-autonomous systems to create visual art.

Moments of subjectivity and randomness are introduced into typically rigid systems to ensure each piece is unique, while consciously maintaining a distinct aesthetic that immediately communicates a foundation of rule-based systems.

His works are presented as analogues to archaeological finds - not in their materiality, but in their capacity to evoke an embedded history and cultural significance, through a process led heavily by organic discovery and emergence."

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