CURRICULUM VITAE

Henrik Hey
Born 27 July 1950 in Ringsted, Denmark
Living and working in the Netherlands

email: ask@henrikhey.nl


1969 Working as an assistant draughtsman for “Driver-Jowitt Lincoln” architects offices, Salisbury, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia).

1976 Completing “Byggeteknisk Hojskole” in Copenhagen (Highschool for technical architecture).

1979 Was connected with the University of Copenhagen, department “Institute for Social Medicine” (printing and drawing scientific and educational reports.

1981 Four years full-time study for visual arts, specialized in drawing and graphics at the “Skolen for Brugskunst” (now called Denmark’s Design School), Copenhagen, Denmark.

1983 Working full-time for the Danish newspaper “Politiken”, doing layout and graphic design and illustrations for the daily edition.

1985 Freelance illustrator dealing with drawing and layout for magazines and newspapers.

1992 Instructor for the department of silk-screen printing at the Faculty of Visual Art and Design, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

2000 Invited to take part in workshop for Japanese woodblock print making Nagasawa Art Park Artist-in-Residence on Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan.

2003 Participating in the international print making conference Michaelis School of Fine Art, Capetown South Africa.

2005 Participating in the international print making conference held in Berlin and Poznan.Taking part in "Artists discuss the Nagasawa Art Park Program "+ the selected portfollio presentations in the Universitaet Der Kunste Berlin galleries.

2007 Participating in the international print making conference, IMPACT 5, held in Tallinn, Estonia

 


EXHIBITIONS:
1981 Vester VOV VOV, Kopenhagen
1985 Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
1991 PTT Telecom, Utrecht
1992 Galerie Uithof, Utrecht
1992 Broese Kemink, Utrecht
1993 Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht
1994 Galleri Brantebjerg, Nykobing, Denmark
1996 Nederlandse Spoorwegen, Utrecht
2000 Shizuka Hall, Tsuna Town, Awasi, Japan
2001 Australian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
2001 Grafieksalon Besselaar, Utrecht
2002 Skydoor Art Place Agyama, Bifgalleria Bld. Tokyo, Japan
2003 Academie Gallerie, HKU, Utrecht
2003 Boulevard D’Unica, Utrecht.
2003 55 Mercer Gallery, New York
2004 Gallery Griftsteede Gemeente Utrecht
2007 Group exhibition : NAGASAWA 10, ' a time and a place 'in Deco Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia.
2008 Group exhibition 'A Time and a Place', Grafisch Atelier, Amsterdam.
WORKSHOP PROGRAM FOR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTMAKING
Danish born artist Henrik Hey, living and working in the Netherlands, has in the last few years been specialising in works using silkscreen and water based woodblock printing. This latter technique Henrik Hey has studied in Japan. For many years he has been interested in Japanese aesthetics, especially in traditional Japanese printmaking techniques.
Therefore he was immensely happy to be given the opportunity to visit Japan in 2000, to participate as one of six international artists in “Nagasawa Art Park Artist in Residence Programme for Japanese woodblock printmaking”. He stayed on Awaji Island, Hyogo, south of Kobe.
Henrik and his fellow artists were based in a studio of Nagasawa and worked there for 2 month.
Tadashi Toda (printer)
Shunzo Matsuda (carver)
Henrik Hey benefited enormously from the Nagasawa residensy, which was organised and directed by Keiko Kadota. Henrik received tuition from outstanding teachers of the art of Japanese printmaking, including Kyoko Sakamoto from Nagoya University of Arts, the well-known carver Shunzo Matsuda and the printing specialist Tadashi Toda, both from Kyoto. Papermaking was taught by Yoshiharu Okuda from Awaji Island.

Tadishi Toda, specialist printer from Kyoto, gives a demonstration in printing
It was in the same period that the first experimental collaboration project between Henrik Hey and artist, carver and printer Masahiro Takade started. "The Nagasawa bird“ is the result of the collaboration. In 2007 their second collaboration was completed with the woodblock print : ' Spring is here ', printed in a adition of 50

woodblock for "Shelter"
Since my stay in Japan in the year 2000, I have been working in the traditional way of printmaking. Using this technique, with its delicate proceedings was the start of an enduring love. I work with bird images. The possibilities to work free within form and colour are ultimate. The birds are linked to freedom and give me freedom and enjoyment to design, carve and print. One design leads to another and so does the discovery of new challenging paths to follow in the world of woodblock printing.