Huseyin Sami

Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2025 - Finalist

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Artist Statement

Huseyin Sami taps into the senses through an intimate and physical engagement with his chosen medium of painting. House paint — plastic in liquid form — is poured; as it sets, the artist pushes and pulls the plastic skins. A gesture remains of tension from his unguessable innovative and experimental processes. At once a final piece and a documentation of performance, the artworks are slick and glossy, painting reduced to an abstracted form.

The processes Sami employs to produce his paintings conceal evidence of the laborious brush work that goes into making the works. Hidden in the resulting skins are the gestural marks for layers of thickness and thinness, texture and movement. Sami’s connection with the medium is intimate, one entirely material-based, tapping into the visceral space for a conscious relationship of physicality. With multiple skins combined, his compositions are liquid and slippery.