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Andrew Hardwick's often large scale, sedimentary paintings display his captivation with wilderness zones; both natural and man-made. Playing with and subverting traditional notions of romantic landscape painting and the sublime. The paintings often depict edge-land zones around big industrial conurbations or ports, such as large-scale car storage compounds, redundant factories and polluted waste lands. Other works draw inspiration from the more typically idyllic locations such as Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. However, these landscapes are also filled with reminders of human interference. Roads cris-cross the moor in deeply scratched lines, a narrow road is etched into an otherwise massive moorland triptych, likewise a real car radiator sits in the surface of a painting’s as if decaying and buried by the earth. His medium of working is also atypical, paintings are heavily layered with different types of paint (often sourced from recycling centre), plaster, plastics, soils, pigments, roofing felt, hay and other unconventional materials. To this rich surface relevant artefacts are often added, creating reminders or triggering memories intrinsic to a particular landscape...
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The concept of layering in the landscape arrived partly a result of the artist’s childhood, during which his family’s farm was first sliced in half by the M5 motorway and then again by the Royal Portbury Dock. The land once filled with sheep has become a pure edge-land wilderness with detritus of the developments now filling the land. Hardwick’s entire oeuvre makes reference to concepts of change, memory, history and emotion. Ever redolent is the notion that we are but another layer in time.
Andrew Hardwick is a British artist born in Bristol, England in 1961 where he still resides. He achieved an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales. He is an elected Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. He has featured in four solo exhibitions at Anima-Mundi. Works have been exhibited extensively including numerous public shows and have been collected worldwide.
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This exhibition includes work by four RWA Academicians, including Andrew Hardwick, Dallas Collins, Sara Dudman and Susan, with each artist tracing deep and individual responses to the natural world. Each work holds fragments of place that move beyond representation to connect with elements that are both intimate and universal.
Andrew Hardwick’s ‘Wounded Land’ opens from Saturday 17 February until 23 March 2024 at the Allsop Gallery, Bridport Art Centre…
Andrew Hardwick’s solo exhibition ‘Lost Landscapes’ takes place at the Plough Arts Centre, Torrington, Devon from 20 May until 24 June 2023.
Andrew Hardwick is included in the major public exhibition ‘Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781 - 2022’ including Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Samuel John Lamorna Birch, William Blake, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, Susan Derges, Tania Kovats, Richard Long, John Martin, David Nash, John Nash, Paul Nash, Samuel Palmer, John Piper, Yinka Shonibare, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland & J. M. W. Turner.
Andrew Hardwick is working towards a public solo exhibition at The Sadler Gallery at The Spring Arts Centre, Havant which will open on 14 April until 15 June 2022…
Anima Mundi’s major online international mixed exhibition featuring the work of 40 international artists, is now available to view on our website alongside the online catalogue, images, texts and video…
Anima Mundi are delighted to launch ‘Beyond Ourselves’ a major mixed online exhibition featuring 39 international artists.
'Ode to a Nightingale' is now open online. It was curated in response to the extraordinary crisis moment of lockdown that we find ourselves in and is our most international exhibition to date.
The Atkinson is nationally recognised and holds major contemporary art exhibitions. Previous exhibitors include Andy Warhol, Albert Irvin OBE, Sir Anthony Caro, Lynn Chadwick CBE, Gillian Ayres, Don McCullin, Marc Quinn, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Peter Randall-Page, Basil Beattie and Terry Frost.
The 251st annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition has opened its doors once again. This edition includes works from Tim Shaw, Sarah Ball, Rebecca Harper, Andrew Hardwick and Peter Randall-Page.
Sax Impey and Andrew Hardwick are included in the major RWA exhibition ‘The Power of the Sea: Making Waves in British Art 1790-2014’ alongside JMW Turner, John Constable, Peter Lanyon, Joan Eardley, John Piper, Paul Nash, Henry Moor and Walter Langley…