himHallows
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.
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 first result of this infrastructure-as-patterns exploration started with a shipping container pattern study in 2018 (based on a shipping container storage site near Trafford Park). 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. This led to a series of patterns exhibited at Altogether Otherwise, Manchester as an exhibition titled SCALE, with each work created to approximately 2 x 3 meters in size.
Works have also 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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