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Hego (Hugh Snelgrove) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Sydney.

Artist Biography:

Hego (Hugh Snelgrove) is a multidisciplinary visual artist who is currently based on Gadigal lands in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that Hego lived in Naarm (Melbourne). Hego shares stories and calls people to action with murals, interactive art, photography, zines, collage and documentaries.

His work often focuses on collaborating with local and international communities to help amplify undertold stories. In 2015 he co-produced the short documentary 'Positive Movements' which followed him creating murals with the local community in Baltimore and Philadelphia USA. In 2018 he produced the documentary BLACK ANZAC on SBS about his mural work around Australia based on First Peoples soldiers from World War I.

Hego has been a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize (2018), MGA Bowness Prize (2018) and Sculpture by The Sea (2007). Hego has had his artworks, photographs and collages exhibited in solo and group exhibitions.

Hego in Museums Victoria Collection:

Hego generously donated two art works to the Museums Collection.

The first is a framed photographic print (along with the digital file of same image MM 154010), entitled 'Sudan Peace, Australia, 2017,' of former Sudanese child soldier Bol Alcoc Buoi, by Hego, 2017. This work was a finalist in the National Portrait Gallery National Photographic Portrait Prize, 2018. The photograph was taken at Footscray Train Station, Melbourne as part of Hego's South Sudan Series.

The second is painting, acrylic and watercolour on canvas, entitled 'Bystander Affect' completed in February 2022. It portrays the protest outside the Park Hotel Carlton where asylum seekers relocated from offshore detention were imprisoned from late 2019 and then gradually released until the final refugees were released in April 2022.

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