Peculiar Textures - Luke Heng, Hilmi Johandi and Bradley Foisset

This exhibition is held from 8th May to 13th June 2015 at Galerie Steph at Helu-Trans Artspace. It coincides with the reopening of the revamped space, which now features only Ikkan Art and Galerie Steph.

This exhibition featured the three artists, Hilmi Johandi, Luke Heng and Bradley Foisset.

Hilmi's works are a continuation of his series. This time he presented smaller format works as compared to his art stage pieces. It is definitely an improvement / moving on. Although superficially it looks the same, but the brush strokes, structure, presentation of ideas and colour palette are much different.

Luke Heng presented brilliant works on paper. He claims they are drawings, but it looks much like paintings to me. In fact he intentionally painted a rectangular area, and left a border to make it look like a print. And the font of the title and his signature at the bottom where a la print style to further the deception. But the small format works are gorgeous.

Bradley Foisset presented a collage of images cut into various shapes and sizes and printed onto aluminium. Looks a bit messy. Not his best works. But interesting. He also presented two abstract mixed media pieces that look something like Piet Mondrian works but with the painted areas textured.

Points for collectors: Hilmi and Luke are strong buys. Hilmi's works were all pre-sold. Some of Luke's works were also bought up. Bradley Foisset is on the watch list. He does good work but needs to show more and get more exposure.