CJ Hendry

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CJ Hendry
Born
Catherine Jenna Hendry

1988 (age 35–36)
NationalityAustralian
StyleHyper-realism
Children2
Websitewww.cjhendry.live

Catherine Jenna Hendry (CJ Hendry) (born 1988) is a contemporary Australian artist known for hyper-realistic, large-scale renderings of luxury objects using a self-developed scribbling technique.

Biography[edit]

Hendry was born in South Africa and raised in Brisbane, Australia.[1] She studied architecture at Queensland University of Technology and finance at University of Queensland in Australia, before dropping out to pursue an art career in 2013.[2][3] Hendry lived and practiced in Brisbane prior to moving to New York in 2015.[3]

Hendry's practice started as a hobby. She has no formal art training and considers herself "not very creative."[4] Her works are primarily hyper-realistic, large scale ink drawings of luxury objects that sometimes take 200 hours to complete.[5] Working with ink on paper her pieces are achieved through layers of what she refers to as scribbles.[4][2][6] She uses photographs with edited saturated lighting, a ruler and a pen as a guide for their placement.[7] Hendry credits her fame to social media attributing her first sale in 2014, a depiction of RM Williams boots that sold for $10,000, to Instagram.[4] An executive from Australia’s Macquarie Bank paid $50,000 USD for a drawing of a rumpled Gucci shopping bag. More widely-known owners of her pieces include Kanye West, who bought a piece of a $100 USD bill with a portrait of his face drawn on it alongside iconic fashion designer Vera Wang.[8]

Back in 2015 she dipped a pair of $9,000 USD Nike Air Mags in a bucket of black paint in order to use as a study for a hyperrealistic drawing.[8]

In 2016 Hendry expanded her practice with the launch of a collaboration with fashion house Christian Louboutin.[9][10] The resulting exhibition, held in the Anita Chan Lia-ling Gallery at the Fringe Club in Hong Kong as part of the 2017 Art Basel, marked Hendry's first time working with colour and wax pencil.[11] The difference, the artist explains, is that "color is very difficult, because you've got to use multiple different colors to create one."[12]

Exhibitions[edit]

  • Public Pool (2024)
  • PLAID (2023)
  • Cheese (2022)
  • Epilogue (postponed due to COVID-19 - early 2022)
  • Blonde (2021)
  • Straya (2021)
  • Rorschach (2019)
  • Monochrome (2018)
  • Complementary Colours (2017)[11][9]
  • The Trophy Room (2016)[3]
  • 50 Foods in 50 Days (2015)[13]
  • The Art Hunter (2014)[4][14]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lacey, Stephen (24 March 2015). "The unknown Aussie artist fetching a year's salary for a single drawing". Executive Style. Archived from the original on 14 December 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b Rocca, Jane (27 July 2015). "Artist CJ Hendry an Instagram phenomenon". The Weekly Review. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  3. ^ a b c Ubaldi, Simone (4 November 2016). "Australian artist CJ Hendry tries New York on for size". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d Fortescue, Elizabeth (2 August 2014). "CJ Hendry scribbles her way to success". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  5. ^ Ryall, Jenni (15 September 2014). "Artist Quit University to Draw — Now Kanye West Wants Her Work". Mashable. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  6. ^ Garnsworthy, Jasmine (2 June 2015). "Why Artist CJ Hendry is Catching the Eye of Everyone From Kanye West to Vogue". StyleCaster. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  7. ^ Tikos, Bill (7 October 2014). "ARTIST TO WATCH - CJ HENDRY". Watch-That-Label. Archived from the original on 26 December 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Studio Visits: Cj Hendry". HYPEBEAST. 8 April 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  9. ^ a b Lupica, Lilith Hardie (27 March 2017). "CJ Hendry on working with colour for the first time and originality". Vogue.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 November 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  10. ^ "An Interview With Australian Artist CJ Hendry". Harper's BAZAAR. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  11. ^ a b Chen, Vivian (29 March 2017). "Monochrome artist CJ Hendry turns to colour for Christian Louboutin". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  12. ^ Lam, Teresa (23 March 2017). "Here's What Went Down at CJ Hendry x Christian Louboutin's "Complimentary [sic] Colors" Exhibition". HYPEBEAST. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  13. ^ "TCH launches CJ Hendry's 50 Foods in 50 Days Exhibition in Melbourne". The Cool Hunter. 30 March 2015. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  14. ^ Preston, Sammy (19 March 2014). "The Art Hunter". Broadsheet. Retrieved 19 November 2017.

External links[edit]

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