Tag: Hurvin Anderson

Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, Birmingham, UK) creates paintings that oscillate between figuration and abstraction, drawing on personal history and the visual textures of the Caribbean and British landscapes. Barbershops, domestic interiors, woodland clearings and overgrown gardens recur as layered, atmospheric spaces—sites where memory and place blend into one another. His compositions often unfold through grids, screens and repeated patterns, structures that both frame and obscure the scene, echoing the complexities of diasporic identity.

Anderson’s surfaces—lush yet meticulously organised—carry a quiet tension: moments of clarity dissolve into veils of colour, while familiar settings slip toward the dreamlike. Through this interplay of structure and fluidity, he explores how environments are shaped by migration, belonging and cultural inheritance.

Measured, immersive and deeply attuned to the politics of seeing, Anderson’s practice transforms ordinary locations into meditative, multifaceted terrains where history and personal experience coexist.