CJ Hendry

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CJ Hendry
Born
Catherine Jenna Hendry

1988 (age 35–36)
NationalityAustralian
StyleHyper-realism
Children2
Website cjhendrystudio.com

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.

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Biography

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

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  11. 1 2 Chen, Vivian (29 March 2017). "Monochrome artist CJ Hendry turns to colour for Christian Louboutin". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
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  13. ↑ Beach, Charlotte (9 April 2024). "Cj Hendry Makes a Splash in the Desert with 'Public Pool'". PRINT Magazine. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
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