A man with dark curly hair wearing a green vertically striped shirt standing indoors in front of a beige wall with abstract paintings.

Biography

Raymond Henshaw was a master screen printer, curator, teacher and poet. His work aimed to quietly pose questions inviting the viewer to look beyond first impressions and delve deeper into topics. Including, the histories of the people portrayed, the value of literature in a digital age, and the relationship of text and images to form original narratives. 

​​The majority of his work has particular interest in utilising the everyday object as a poetic metaphor. Infusing common objects with meaning and incorporating narratives with a social political leaning. Some of his photographic work and installations forge relationships around ideas of civility. As he was concerned with marking his own and others’ existence, these photographic works often contain portraits. Those portrayed are everyday people, part of the community at large that the artist met.

Narratives can be wrapped around histories both personal and national, looking at citizenship, ethnicity, belonging and morality. Other work focused on abstraction, using everyday packaging as a template to explore ideas about colour and form.

All his subject matter are explored across a variety of mediums, but can be chiefly seen in printmaking, installations, photography and the artist’s books. Examples of his work can be explored throughout this website.

Person working with a large screen printing frame in a workshop, applying a stencil or ink to the frame.
Young man in a checkered blazer holding a paintbrush and looking at the camera in an art studio.
Two men examining architectural drawings and blueprints in front of a large display with technical sketches on a dark background.

Solo Exhibitions

Year - Title - Location

2017 - A Collection - Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N Ireland
2010 - Paper Trail - Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, N Ireland
2009 - Ulster University Belfast, N Ireland
2009 - Townhouse Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
2008 - Beneath metropolis - island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N Ireland
2007 - Paintings and works on paper - Carlinn Gallery, Carlingford, Ireland
2005 - Primary Colours - Orange Free State University, South Africa
2004 - Impact - printmaking conference exhibition, Cape Town, South Africa
2003 - Coe - Claremorris Open, Mayo, Ireland
2001 - Forty shades of Blue - Monaghan County Museum, Ireland
1999 - Temporal Visions - Fordsburg Artists Studios, collaborative works with writers, Phedi Tholmbolo & Molafe Monsenye, Johannesburg, South Africa
1999 - Thresholds - Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
1999 - Thresholds - Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland
1994 - Vessel - Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland
1993 - Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick, N Ireland
1992 - Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
1991 - Stockport Municipal Art Gallery, Cheshire, England
1991 - Flowerfields Art gallery, Port Stewart, N Ireland.
1990 - Newry Arts Centre, N Ireland

An art gallery with a layered display of cardboard boxes featuring various printed images on a wooden floor. Artworks are displayed on the white walls in the background, including one with a pixelated pattern and another with a layered text piece.
Several architectural blueprints or technical drawings taped to a dark wall.

Group Exhibitions

  • 2013 - TR5(temporary residency 5) - Cork, Ireland
    2013 - stamp - RUA RED, Dublin, Ireland
    2012 - 21 - Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
    2012 - Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
    2012 - Impressions - Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
    2012 - Brown Thomas, Dublin, Ireland
    2011 - Annual Show - Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin
    2011 - 20/20 portfolio exchange - Hotbed Press, Manchester, England2011 'TEN' -Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N Ireland
    2011 - Response - BPW gallery, Queens Arts Festival, Belfast
    2011 - Naughton Gallery - Queen's University Collection, Belfast, N Ireland
    2011 - Born Digital - international web exhibition curated by Paul Thompson
    2011 - High Point Press, Minnesota, USA.2011 - Box-id - No Grants Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland
    2011 - Summer show - Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
    2010 - Matrix - Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
    2010 - Impressions - Galway Arts Center, Galway, Ireland.
    2010/11 - Watershed- Hong Kong, China
    2009 - Tower of Babel - Impact 6' printmaking conference, Bristol, England
    2009 - Strule Arts Center, Omagh, N Ireland
    2009 - GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS - SGC, Chicago, USA
    2009 - Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, N Ireland
    2008 - Carlinn Gallery, County Louth, Ireland
    2008 - Impressions - Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
    2007 - Impact 5 - 'The book of evidence’, Tallinn, Estonia
    2007 - 25/25 - Graphic studio, Dublin, Ireland
    2006 - Impressions - Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
    2006 - 25/25 - BPW at Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast, N Ireland
    2006 - Contemporary prints, Gordon Gallery, Derry, N Ireland
    2006 - Mind Body spirit - Naughton Gallery, QUB, Belfast, N Ireland
    2006 - 411 Gallery, Hangzhou and Beihsing, Peoples Republic of China
    2006 - Iontas Centre, Castleblayney, Ireland
    2005 - Impact, Cultural Transport - Akademie de Kunst, Berlin, Germany
    2005 - Impact, Cultural Transport, Akademie of Art, Poznan, Poland
    2005 - 6x6 - Hangzhou, China
    2005 - Residency exhibition- Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, Cork, Ireland
    2006-05 & 04 - Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast, N Ireland
    2005 - Mind body spirit - Queen's University, Belfast, N Ireland
    2005 - Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, N Ireland
    2004 - Revealing Objects - Queen's University, Belfast, N Ireland
    2004 - Sense of Place - Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford, Ireland
    2003 - Paragon Studios, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, N Ireland
    2003 - Belfast Print Workshop, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, N Ireland
    2003 - Clotworthy Arts Centre, N Ireland
    2002 - Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, N Ireland
    2002 - Original Print Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
    2002 - Large Print Show, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
    2002 - Irish printmakers, Ithaca, New York, USA
    2001 - Engine Room Gallery, BPW, Belfast, N Ireland
    2001 - works on paper - Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
    2001 - Printmakers from Ireland - Cite Internationale des Artes, Paris, France
    2001 - Belfast Print Workshop, Riddel Hall, Belfast, N Ireland
    2000 - paragon studios show - Engine Room Gallery, Belfast, N’ Ireland
    2000 - One for the Body - Flaxart show, Monaghan County Museum, Monaghan, Ireland
    1998 - Artworking (Dublin) & Bryson House (Belfast), collaborative project with poet Paul Gratten, “Connect” along train route from Belfast to Dublin, Ireland
    1997 - Household Objects - Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
    1997 - Words & Pictures, with poet Paul Grattan - Barbican Centre, London, England
    1997 - 40 artists from Ireland - Burgwedel Kunst galerie, Hannover, Germany
    1996 - SIPTU living Art Space, Dublin, Ireland
    1995 - Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland
    1994 - Determined material foundations - Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
    1994 - Large Group Show’ & ‘Christmas Show - Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, N Ireland
    1992 - SMAM Gallery, ‘L’ Europe d’art festival’, Niort, France
    1992 - British Art - Association Catalan Arts Plastic, Barcelona, Spain
    1991 - British Art - Impact Gallerie, Albi, France
    1989 - MA Show - Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, England
    1989 - Transcriptions - Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, England
    1988 - Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England
    1987 - Festival Show - Artists Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland