Henry Nguyen – Going Down Swinging

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Henry Nguyen is a Kaurna land based communication designer and illustrator originally from Vietnam. His work is inspired by daily conversations and observation mainly on: gender politics, gender-neutral storytelling, the human-nature relationship, the self and folklores. Taking elements from those, his work takes shape in quirky creatures, colours along with a narrative reflecting my opinions in a way that speaks to him the most. @henry_creativ

A painting with bold colours and shapes, of a young girl on the left-hand side with a black bob and in a pink and blue jumper with a flower on the front, stripey pink pants and slides with pink socks. In one hand she holds a glittering sword. She raises her right hand where it crosses over with the legs of the large purple horse rearing up on the right-hand side of the painting. The horse is standing on its hind legs, is wearing pink high-heeled boots on all four feet, and has a long swishing tail. The figures are on an aqua background and turqouise floor, surrounded by sparkling golden coins. The horse has an orange cloudy speech bubble filled with more coins. A cheeky little beige cat rests on top of the horse.

December 10, 2021

Non-Fiction

on debt and horse-riding camp

Henry Nguyen, Wen-Juenn Lee

Sounds in a Strange Land — by Wen-Juenn Lee
a soft, unarmoured thing — Nonfiction by Wen-Juenn Lee
Forms of Convenience — by Jamie Marina Lau
Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee — by Clare Millar
dot dash — Creative non-fiction from Sar Fegan
Here is a home — Memoir from Georgia Mill
Playing K-Pop Here — by Soo-Min Shim
On Chickens — by Caitlin McGregor
How the Coronavirus Rewrote My Passion Project: A Play — A short play by Joel Burrows.
Grief Lessons as a letter — by Josie/Jocelyn Deane
TENDERNESS 2020 — by Em Meller
In the Belly of the Trojan Horse — by Ahmed Yussuf
And the Bird Brings the Honey — by Jackie Goodlet
Sometimes texas is just texas, sometimes it’s a state — Words by Hasib Hourani & art by Linda Liu
All the best, — by Morgan-Lee Snell
The Fat of the Land — Non-fiction from Liz Crash
Female Monsters, a Roman Goddess and Darwin: On Womanhood and Body When You Have Cancer — by Amal Awad
T Huang: The Tennis Jock — by Tina Huang
Hey Man — by Jack Kirne
on meeting places — Interactive essay from Rory Green
Folding tofu skins while Shanghai stills — GDS Reads... by Jinghua Qian
A Writer's Silence — by Omar Sakr
Eating Memories — Nonfiction by Moira Tirtha
No Shame in the Void — by Mira Schlosberg
(im)material inheritances — by Shu-Ling Chua
Singing in Public, Not for the Public, But Not for Oneself — by Christopher O'Neill
Something About Love — by Angelita Biscotti