himHallows is the working name of Paul Hallows, an artist and multi-discipline creative practitioner based at the Engine House in Salford's Islington Mill.

 

himHallow’s art practice is focused on illustrated patterns manufactured by repeating and joining together risograph printed tiles. The patterns centre around the repetitions that occur within various real world settings but mostly around infrastructural systems.

 

The kernel for himHallows’s obsession with patterns began with an off-season visit to Jesolo in Italy and encountering the regimented rows of sun loungers packed onto the resort's beaches. The neverending, factory-like approach to sunbathing had an uncanny appearance in a holiday setting and would remain a thought slowly ticking over the next decade. The desire to communicate this repetition led to seeing patterns in all kinds of architecture and infrastructure, and an outlet formed to communicate these observations. This parasol pattern would be realised in several studies over the coming years.

The actual first result of this infrastructure-as-patterns exploration started with a shipping container pattern study in 2018. The shipping container pattern started a body of work called infrastructure that was exhibited at the Modernist Gallery in 2019, comprising a series of mostly A1 size prints. From this, the pattern exploration has evolved and with that the scale and construction at which the final pieces have too. Works have appeared in exhibitions at Home Mcr (with Tower Crane / Redevelopment Granada prize nominated), Now Gallery, The People’s History Museum and during covid as on augmented reality experiment entitled Infrastructure AR.

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