RFBYC Art Exhibition - Group Exhibition - Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club Peppermint Grove
7 February - 9 February 2025
I am delighted to exhibit in the RFBYC inaugural Art Exhibition which will raise funds for BrightSpark Foundation. BrightSpark are dedicated to funding Western Australian research into child health.
I am very happy that my work Nothing to See Here features in the Feb/March 2025 issue of Belle Magazine, as part of The Casablanca Project. With thanks and congratulations to the incredibly talented team at Sherwood Design. Sherwood won the residential house category at the prestigious Society of British and International Design (SBID) Awards 2024, with their interior design project Casablanca.
Small - Group Exhibition - Stala Contemporary 14 September - 5 October 2024
From delicate paintings to intricate sculptures, these small but mighty works invite viewers to lean in, explore and lose themselves in the detail.
Perth Royal Art Prize Claremont 2024 Finalist
Remagine Art Prize 2024 Finalist My work Consumption Costs the Earth received an honourable mention. Thank you to the Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre.
Summer Salon - represented artists exhibition - Stala Contemporary 2 March - 23 March 2024
Joy Exhibition - February 2024
I'm very happy to be part of this fundraising event hosted by The Montauk Lighting Co., in support of Starlight Children's Foundation.
Serene (Canvascape Series: acrylic on canvas, 90cm x 90cm) Milieu Creative collection
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 Exhibition - Stala Contemporary 5 - 26 August 2023
Minnawarra Art Awards 2023 Finalist
Rockingham Art Awards 2023 Finalist
Nature of the Beast - Solo Show - Stala Contemporary
Bad Parking (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 76cm x 76cm) Private Collection
Perth Royal Art Prize Claremont 2022 Finalist
The Trees Speak (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 90cm) Private Collection
Solo Exhibition
I've been working hard on my upcoming solo exhibition at Stala Contemporary. I utilise a minimalist two toned palette for my Duochrome series of paintings and meticulously hand paint every detail. I'm looking forward to sharing the space with Artist Sue Leeming. All are welcome!
Bad Parking (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 76cm x 76cm) Private Collection
Ensemble 2 - Group Exhibition
I'm very pleased to share the walls with some incredible Art and Artists at Stala Contemporary!
Minnawarra Art Awards 2022 Finalist
In Bloom (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 130cm) Private Collection
A lot of detail and countless hours of work in this piece from my Duochrome series
Thank you to the European collector who acquired this work!
Winter Scene (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 75cm x 100cm) Private Collection
Joy Exhibition
In support of 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. Opening February 14 at The Townhouse, 10 Northwood Street, West Leederville.
Let Go (Canvascape Series: enamel on canvas, 85cm x 85cm) Private Collection
Expander - COLOUR - Group Exhibition
I'm very excited about my first group exhibition at STALA Contemporary. Thank you to Seesaw Magazine for their review!
(Canvascape Series: enamel on canvas, 30cm x 30cm)
I'm very pleased to announce my representation in Western Australia by Stala Contemporary! Stala is an independent commercial gallery space dedicated to contemporary art.
Nothing In Between - Solo Exhibition - Kolbusz Space
"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."
Bystander (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 150cm)
ION - Group exhibition - Lost Eden Creative
Art Mart - Group Exhibition - 2020 - Kolbusz Space
This little guy has flown to a collector in Helsinki.
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 view 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!
SCENE - Group Exhibition - Nyisztor Studio
I'm happy to have some works exhibited at SCENE, a group show at Nyisztor Studio
Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2019
I’m pleased to announce that my video work Another Day… has been selected for the amazing Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2019. Commencing 26 July, the streets of Melbourne come alive with a spectacular selection of video projections. For more details please visit https://www.gspf.com.au/
Thank you to the collector in the USA who acquired this work for their Private Collection!
Life is not a Business 2019 (enamel and oil on canvas, 150cm x120cm) Private Collection
Bassendean Art Awards 2017 (highly commended) Finalist
Too Much, But Never Enough (Duochrome Series: enamel on canvas, 100cm x 75cm)
The Wanneroo Art Awards 2017 - Winner Best Painting
My painting Numbers Man was awarded the prize for the best painting this year, thank you to the City of Wanneroo!
Numbers Man, (Duochrome Series: oil and enamel on canvas, 150cm x 150cm)
The Bald Archies 2017 Finalist
My painting Message For Malcolm was selected as a finalist in the Bald Archies. The exhibition tours 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 - Winner Acquisitive Prize
I am very pleased to announce that my painting Lost has been awarded the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority Acquisitive prize.
Lost (Duochrome Series: acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 150cm Public Collection)
Commission - City of Joondalup Inside-Out Billboard - We Are Nature
The City of Joondalup Inside-Out 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."
Solo Exhibition - 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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