Substance and Accident
2012


What If It's All True,
What Then?

2011


Bi-product Depositories
2009


Depthplunge
2007



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Alexis Harding's website
 
1973 Born in London
Lives and works in London

Education

1992 - 95

Goldsmiths College, BA (Hons) Fine Art

One Person Exhibitions

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1997

Substance and Accident
, Mummery + Schnelle, London
Long Room Drying Depot
, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Tondos and Bi-Products
, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Bi-product Depositories
, Mummery + Schnelle, London
Broken Lines, Galleria Marabini, Milan

Depthplunge, Mummery + Schnelle, London

Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
New Paintings and Sculpture, Verein allerArt, Bludenz, Austria

Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London

Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel

Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London

Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Project Room, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium

Selected Group Exhibitions

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Horse Meat Auction, Cock n Bull Gallery, London

Painting Two: The Thick of It
, Sumarria Lunn, London
Turps Banana at Vigo Gallery, Vigo Gallery, London

What If It's All True, What Then?
, Mummery + Schnelle, London
Model Vs Reality, Fold Gallery, London, selected by Alexis Harding
Absorbency Retreat, AVA Gallery, University of East London, London
(curated by Alexis Harding)
Material Worlds: Contemporary Art Society Auction, Victoria House, London

LAYERS, RETROSPECTIVE,
John Moores Painting Prize Show, Seongnam Art Centre Cube Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Collecting the New: Recent Acquisitions to the IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London
Non-identical abstraction engine, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles
Exhiibitionism: The Art of Display, Temporary Wet Painting No 11, Courtauld Institute, London

Getting Nowhere, Galeria Gentilli, Prato, Italy
Supersurface FX, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
The Path of Most Resistance, OCAD Professional Gallery, Ontario, Canada
Turps: Part One
, Galleria Marabini, Milan; Turps: Part Two, Galleria Marabini, Bologna (curated by Marcus Harvey & Peter Jones)

...same as it ever was: Painting at Chelsea 1990-2007,
University of the Arts, London (curated by Clyde Hopkins)

Painting in the Noughties,
Donegal, Ireland
Driven, Fieldgate Gallery, London
Strange Geography, Kingsgate Gallery, London
Paint, Two Rooms Gallery, New Zealand

Linda Aloysius, Alexis Harding, Warren Neidich, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London

Time Share, Eagle Gallery, London
Tower of Babel, LAF, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Remarkable, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Alexis Harding and Peter Lynch, Galerie Katharina Krohn, Basel
Alexis Harding and Andrew Bick, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
The Red Carpet, Kunst in Schloss Untergröningen, Untergröningen,Germany
Controlled, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds

John Moores 23: exhibition of contemporary painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Winner of the First Prize)
Painting as Process: re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, Singapore (curated by Eugene Tan)
In the Time of Shaking, IMMA, Dublin

Colour Chart, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Before and After Science, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Vacant, Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland
Drawn to be Alive, Hales Gallery, London
The Drawing Room, London

Last Chance to Paradise, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Prima Facie, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
The Day I Had No Cigar, Platform Gallery, London
The Image in Use, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
Shimmering Substance, Arnolfini, Bristol, and Cornerhouse, Manchester
Andrew Mummery@Collective, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

Showcase: No. 5, Courtauld Institute, London
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Croma, Galerie Kröhn, Badenweiler, Germany

British Art: Not Enough, VELAN, Turin. Curated by Victor de Circasia.
Pump House Gallery, London (with Mali Morris)
Painting in Europe: different perspectives, Premio Michetti 2000, Francavilla
al mare (Chieti), Italy (Curated by Gianni Romano)
Movin’ On Up (Part I), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
Colour Codes, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin

Super-Abstr-Action, The Box Associati, Turin and Les Filles du Calvaire art
contemporain, Paris

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Fantastc Overload, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Hoxton New Music Days exhibition, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
(with Maria Chevska and composers Deirdre Gribbin & Peter Wiegold)

Still, (curated by Jenefer Winters), Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
first eleven, The NatWest Art Prize (short-listed artist), Lothbury Gallery, London

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Stepping Up, Andrew Mummery 33 Great Sutton Street, London
Finish, Spacex Gallery Exeter

Loaded, curated by Terry Shave, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Small Truths, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Touring to Todd Gallery, London; Leeds City Art Galleries and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Sunderland
Die Yuppie Scum, curated by Martin Maloney, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
Wet Paint, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Painting, (with Yinka Shonibare) Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
New Contemporaries '96, Tate Gallery Liverpool and Camden Arts Centre, London
Nine Lives, Alternative Arts Space 26 Chiltern Street, London
ART96 London Contemporary Art Fair, exhibition curated by Andrew Mummery

Multiple Orgasm, Lost in Space Gallery, London
Group Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London


Collections
 
Arts Council of England
Bank of Spain
Caldic Collection, Rotterdam
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
National Museums Liverpool, The Walker
Simmons & Simmons, London
UBS, London

Bibliography
 
Books, and Exhibition Catalogues

Townsend, Chris
, 'On Depthplunge, a new series of work by Alexis Harding' (London: Mummery + Schnelle, October 2007). [unpublished]

Townsend, Chris,
New Art From London (London: Thames & Hudson, 2006)

Holman, Martin,
'Twisted into True' (Dublin: Rubicon Gallery, 2006). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Tan, Eugene,
Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting (Singapore: Earl Lu Gallery, 2004). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Treuherz, Julian, ed., John Moores 23 (Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, 2004). Exhibition Catalogue]

Charlesworth, J. J, ' Painting by the skin of your eyes' (London: Andrew Mummery Gallery, 2003). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Marella, Primo , ed., Before and After Science (Milano: Marella Arte Contemporanea, 2003). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Roberts, Catsou, Shimmering Substance/View Finder (Bristol: Arnolfini, 2002). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Collings, Matthew, British Abstract Painting 2001 (London: Momentum, 2001). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Busto, Andrea, Super-Abstr-Action (Torino: The Box, 2000). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Ghisbourne, Mark, '...Not fade away,' (London: Andrew Mummery Gallery, 1998). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Harding, Alexis, 'Rhythm For Reasons' in John Moores 20 (Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery, 1998), p.68-69. [Exhibition Catalogue]

MacRitchie, Lynn, First Eleven: The Natwest Art Prize 1998 (London: NatWest Group, 1998). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Sheridan, Jill, Nicholas de Ville and Stephen Foster, ed., Small Truths: Repetition and the Obsessional in Contemporary Art (Southampton: John Hansard Gallery, 1997). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Craddock, Sacha and Richard Shone, ed., New Contemporaries '96, (Liverpool: Tate Gallery, 1996). [Exhibition Catalogue]

Magazines and Newspaper articles:

Bonaventura, Paul, "Raw and Beautiful - Alexis Harding in conversation with Paul Bonaventura". Contemporary , Issue 88, No. 99, (2006)

Charlsworth, J.J., 'Fever: New Paintings in London', Flash Art, Vol. XXXVII, No 239 (November/December 2004), p. 84-87

Godfrey, Tony, 'Liverpool Biennial', Burlington Magazine (November 2004), p. 776-777

Tunney, Jon, 'A Gloss Finish', Liverpool Echo (17 September 2004)

Brown, Chris , 'Months Watching Paint Dry Lands Artist £25,000', Daily Post (12 September 2004)

Schwabsky, Barry, ' Alexis Harding' , Art Forum International (January 2004) p. 166

Anonymous, 'Art", The Evening Standard (4 October 2000)

Anonymous, 'Alexis Harding', Hot Tickets (29 September 2000)

Tan, Eugene, 'Alexis Harding and Neil Taylor ', Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 20 (2000) p. 76-77

Crowe, Daniel, 'Liquid Change', Butterfly (2000). [Interview]

Exley, Roy, 'A Curatorial Crossing' , Zing Magazine (Winter 1999)

Gisbourne, Mark, Excerpt: '... Not Fade Away', Alexis Harding, Flash Art (February 1999?)

Archer, Michael, 'Alexis Harding: Andrew Mummery Gallery', Art Forum (December 1998)

Anonymous, Dside, No. 37 (October 1998)

Buck, Louisa, 'UK Artist Q&A' , The Art Newspaper, No. 85 (October 1998). [Interview]

Dunne, Aiden, 'When artists choose artists' , The Irish Times (21 October 1998)

Anonymous, 'Alexis Harding', In Dublin, Vol. 23, No. 20 (8 October 1998)

Falconer, Morgan, 'Self regard that puts even Rembrandt to shame' , Highbury and Islington Express (2 October 1998)

Cork, Richard, 'Canvassing our Brightest Talent', The Times (17 June 1998)

Lawrence, James, 'Low Level Dissent', Contemporary Visual Arts , Issue 30 (1998?)

Anonymous, 'John Moores 20', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1998)

Anonymous, 'Loaded' , Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (1996/7). [Exhibition Leaflet]

Dorment, Richard, ' Welcome Blast of Earnest Whimsy', The Daily Telegraph (24 July 1996)

Hilton, Tim, 'A Brush with Business', The Independent on Sunday (21 July 1996)

Shone, Richard, 'Aaaargh! Judgement day', The Guardian (9 July 1996)

Lambirth, Andrew, 'Alexis Harding: Stephen Frieman Gallery', What's On (22 May 1996)