Mark Hilton – Half Flush

Description

Each drawing in New York-based Australian artist Mark Hilton’s new artist’s book ‘Half Flush’ adopts a duality that can’t help but to stir something in the viewer. Using the standard pack of cards as his organising principle, Hilton mixes desire, degradation, contamination, zealotry and violence into a brew often sweetened by humour. Each suit has a theme that works more as a starting point than a defining rule: diamonds are class; hearts are religion; spades are nationalism; clubs are the environment. Using graphite pencil on white paper, Hilton employs a range of styles, from highly intricate realism to cartoons and simple line sketches.

112 pages / 16 x 23 cm / English