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Substance and Accident
2012
What If It's All True,
What Then?
2011
Bi-product Depositories
2009
Depthplunge
2007
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Since the mid 1990's
Alexis Harding has subjected painting to a singular physical
strain. His work emerged as an antagonistic and unruly take
on process painting of the 90’s and has developed into
a wider practice that explores and celebrates the intersections
between abstraction and representation. In it’s use of
painterly time based material and the corruption of various
organizing principles' it has sought out new areas for painting.
“ I use the ordinary language of abstraction and aim to
fundamentally change it; to harness it and stretch it to breaking
point. To do this I have had to change the way paint normally
behaves and functions. The way I make the work is a combination
of strategy and control and irrationality and abandonment. Pictorialism
has been an unexpected residue of the very direct collision
of materials I use to make these paintings. I want to manipulate
the core ingredients of painting, their dumb attributes, through
a type of subjective filter- to see an urban entropic image
come out the other end” |
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