Remagine Art Prize 2024 Finalist
Rockingham Art Awards 2024 Finalistt
"Summer Salon" Stala Contemporary represented artists exhibition
2 March - 23 March 2024
Intersection (electronic detritus, desert sand, red oxide and binder on canvas, 40cm x 40cm)
1 - 29 February 2024, Joy art exhibition hosted by The Montauk Lighting co. I am happy to be part of this fundraising event in support of Starlight Children's Foundation.
"Dirt" Group Exhibition - Stala Contemporary
14 October - 4 November 2023
Bloom Again (earth, cement, found objects, acrylic and enamel on canvas, 130cm x 130cm)
"Winter Salon" group show at Stala Contemporary 5 - 26 August 2023
Minnawarra Art Awards Finalist 2023
Rockingham Art Awards Finalist 2023
Bad Parking (acrylic on canvas, 76cm x 76cm) private collection
Perth Royal Art Prize 2022 Finalist 2-10 September
The Trees Speak (acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 90cm) private collection
SOLO SHOW! I've been working hard for my upcoming solo exhibition at Stala Contemporary, opening Wednesday 21 September 22. I'm looking forward to sharing the space with Artist Sue Leeming, All welcome!
I'm happy to share the walls with some incredible Art and Artists! Group show at Stala Contemporary - until 9 July 2022
Minnawarra Art Awards Finalist 2022
In Bloom (acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 130cm) private collection
Bukowskis Contemporary Art Auction 2022
Winter Scene (acrylic on canvas, 75cm x 100cm) private collection
Joy is an exhibition in support of the Starlight Children's Foundation, presented by The Montauk Lighting Co. All proceeds from Joy will be donated to the continuation of art workshops at PCH. Opens February 14 at The Townhouse, 10 Northwood Street, West Leederville
Let Go (enamel on canvas, 85cm x 85cm) private collection
I'm very excited about my first group exhibition at STALA Contemporary
Thanks to Seesaw magazine for the review!
I'm very pleased to announce my representation in Western Australia by
Stala Contemporary
Solo Exhibition!
Nothing In Between - Kolbusz Space
Bystander (acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 150cm)
Nothing In Between features new works by Eric. His Canvascape series of abstract, sculptural works are enquiries into form and material, ebb and flow. The Canvascapes are contrasted with figurative, minimal paintings revealed in their essential elements of light and dark.
Hynynen’s practice moves seamlessly between painting, video and sculpture. His two-tone palettes invite a meditative contemplation on the dichotomies in society. Providing a counterpoint between ‘man-made’ modernity, consumerism and expectation against the value and potential of simplicity in our natural world.
Group exhibition - Feb 13 Lost Eden Creative: https://losteden.com.au/
Art Mart 2020 - Kolbusz Space
Bukowskis Design + Contemporary Art Fall Auction 2020
This little guy has flown to Helsinki to find a new home. Tikli (European Finch), oil on canvas, 90cm x 90cm. private collection
UNCG International Sustainability Short Films Competition 2020
I'm happy to announce that my short film History Repeats has been awarded 3rd place in this year's competition. Check out some great films for a good cause. You can watch my experimental film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2a1Dfl1_wM
Amsterdam Experimental Film Festival 2020
I’m pleased to have several video artworks shown as part of this amazing experimental film festival in Amsterdam!
Group Exhibition Scene
I am happy to have some works exhibited at SCENE, a group show at
Nyisztor Studio www.nyisztorstudio.com.au
Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2019
I’m happy to announce that my video work Another Day… has been selected for the amazing Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2019. Starting 26th July 2019, the streets of Melbourne come alive with a spectacular selection of video projections. For full details visit: https://www.gspf.com.au/
Life is not a Business 2019 (enamel and oil on canvas, 150cm x120cm) private collection
Things are getting out of hand. Do we want to live in a society or an economy?
Bassendean Art Awards 2017
Too Much, but Never Enough was highly commended this year.
Thanks to the Town of Bassendean!
Too Much, But Never Enough, (100cm x 75cm, enamel on canvas)
The Wanneroo Art Awards 2017
Numbers Man was awarded the prize for the best painting this year! Thank you to the City of Wanneroo!
Numbers Man, (150cm x 150cm, oil and enamel on canvas)
The Bald Archies 2017
My painting “Message For Malcolm” was selected as a finalist in the Bald Archies. Touring several eastern states galleries.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/pauline-hanson-the-prime-subject-at-the-2017-bald-archy-prize-20170209-gu93e5.html
Minnawarra Art Awards 2016
I am pleased to announce that “Lost” has been awarded the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Acquisitive prize.
Inside-Out Billboard
The City of Joondalup Inside-Outside Billboard situated on the west-facing side of the Joondalup Library currently features artist Eric Hynynen's Artwork.
Hynynen is a Western Australian artist who works with paint and video, and was selected for the Inside-Out Billboard commission from the 2015 Community Art Exhibition.
The artist’s interest in science and the environment is reflected in his work that explores the natural world including birdlife, habitats, plants and animals.
Hynynen has produced an artwork entitled ‘We Are Nature’ consisting of adjacent scenes - on the left the head of a man looking at the sky and on the right a native Western Australian bird, wings extended on the banks of a river.
His recent works have been influenced by Eastern philosophy and reflect the intricate connection between humans and nature represented in this artwork using positive and negative space. The contrasts of light and shadow are pushed to the limit and the image is reduced to its bare essentials, a minimal figuration expressing the philosophical concept of the unity of opposites - the idea that the existence of an entity is dependent on the existence of its opposite
SYSTEMATICALLY CONDITIONED - PS Art Space
Systematically Conditioned - is the Finnish/Australian artist’s
first major solo exhibition in Western Australia since returning after a decade in Helsinki, Finland. He is a graduate from the highly regarded Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Masters program.
The exhibition brings together large-scale mixed media paintings, and multi-channel video installations, drawn from the past two years of the artist’s career.
Each artwork connects the viewer to the artist’s philosophical observations on themes including: politics, the relationship between global big business and the government, failing global systemic structures, the erosion of individual freedoms and social responsibility. Issues that are of deep importance to the artist.
Central to Hynynen’s practice is a resolute quest for individual freedom and social equality, a reaction against his perception of our lives being increasingly legislated or controlled. He sees art as a process and space for taking back some of this freedom.
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