Gijs Vanhee, born 1982, is a Belgian artist whose childhood passion for drawing and graffiti have transformed into bodies of work that spreads out over paper, canvas, print, digital art and mural paintings. Narrative illustrations in which humans with the head of a bird invite the viewer to take time to stop and look around, to search in the details for stories or questions about us humans or how we are drifted away from who we are.
These ‘Freebirds’ can be seen as humans freeing their minds through imagination. The search for freedom forms the common thread throughout his work, as well as the balance between nature and society.
