Bi-product Depositories [2003-9]
Between 2003 and 2009 Alexis Harding used the plain cardboard
covers of a 2003 catalogue of his work as drawing boards and
depositories for the bi-product of his studio practice. Numbering
120, these studies collectively they act as companions to the
paintings made over the same period and provide a unique insight
into Harding’s thoughts and working processes.
In the beginning the catalogue covers were grounds for repeated
actions such as the sieving of paint from failed paintings and
cleaning the brush. Over time, a visual language evolved describing
the real time of the studio, the attempt to give an order to
its disorganisation and to its Modernist residue. Recurrent
motifs create a schematic illusionism - paint balls, towerblocks,
Islands, horizon lines, paint detritus, days of the week, paint
boulders, anthropomorphous perching gestures, paint growths,
heads, neglected aerial vegetation, paint excavation, signposts.
Click here
to download a pdf of all 120 catalogue covers
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