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Kay Harwood

http://www.kayharwood.com
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statement

Harwood draws together disparate fragments from historical traditions of western figurative painting, along with imagery from photographic portraits, vintage fashion culture, and numerous other sources, to create a fictitious and subtly displaced space and time.

Each painting begins with the making of a collage; it is here that the composition is worked until a balance is achieved between a subtle discordant awkwardness, and an overall balance of form and colour. The resulting image is then used as the basis of her strangely static and evocative paintings.

Often taking the guise of a formal portrait, Harwood’s paintings depict figures taken from printed material. Their bodies, spliced together from multiple sources, become tense yet curiously alluring, posed plausibly in an often perspectively incorrect backdrop. In spite of their fragmented beginnings, the finished paintings are rendered polished and seemingly resolved. However, the oddity of the compositions and subject matter, encourage the viewer to rest with the image, in a futile but beguiling process of untangling the narratives hidden within.

 

exhibitions

  • ARTfutures 2005

    23rd November — 27th November 2005
    Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD
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