Hurvin Anderson: reporting back

In this short film, produced exclusively for Ikon and filmed on location in Handsworth Park, Birmingham-born artist Hurvin Anderson talks about the inspiration behind his work and the personal connections with Handsworth itself.

[@wordstorm]

Love the work but the video could do with some serious editing. It could be half the length and still get the points over.

[@neoaureus]

Both exhilarating and sad at the same time that painting as a medium with infinite possibilities settles again and again on flatness, design, colours …clothed in the emperor’s new clothes of post colonialism, identity politics, otherness , British-tropicalism…. Hurvin is pleasant and exciting, Peter Doigs blood brother from Jamaica, in artistic sense….but Turner prize material ? Well I have understood Turner prize more than painting….it’s like the Cannes Palme D’Or… very temperamental.

[@gardeniainbloom812]

His parents are from Jamaica, he was born and raised in Britain. His work is thought provoking as well as aesthetically pleasing. Hurvin eschew the use of the term "identity" so no "identity politics" just good old fashioned alienation, loss and displacement. These are universal concepts that are historical and contemporary across the globe. So for me Turner prize material.