Andrew Hardwick 'Scarred Wilderness'
Catalogue of the exhibition 'Scarred Wilderness' by Andrew Hardwick, held at Millennium, St. Ives. www.millenniumgallery.co.uk/scarredwilderness/catalogue.htm
Catalogue of the exhibition 'Scarred Wilderness' by Andrew Hardwick, held at Millennium, St. Ives. www.millenniumgallery.co.uk/scarredwilderness/catalogue.htm
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‘ A n d r e w H a r d w i c k ‘ S c a r r e d W i l d e r n e s s ’
The exhibition represents two years of returning to known<br />
landscapes. Like those of the estuary and coast around Portishead,<br />
where I work and grew up. Also that of the moors. Exmoor and<br />
Dartmoor especially, where as a regular visitor I return for solace.<br />
These landscapes are personal, known, remembered yet at the<br />
same time, strange and always new, when revisited.<br />
The landscapes are embedded in my personal history; their scars,<br />
both geological and historical are joined with mine and all washed<br />
over by the power of the elements and time.<br />
Working in the studio, I try, with conglomerates of texture, to<br />
express something of these feelings. Oil paint, acrylic paint, earth<br />
pigments, ashes, glue, plastic, hay and other found or discarded<br />
material might find a place. Ever present in the image is the sky,<br />
which I find hard to deny.<br />
In some images, ghost-like abandoned quarries, forgotten roads<br />
and railway tracks appear. They are explained in paint, matter<br />
and old toys. A plastic jet disturbs one painting of a seemingly<br />
tranquil vast moor. It is a modern world.
Increasingly my places are upset by walkers and new nature<br />
reserves. The walkers come from new housing estates that have<br />
sanitised and replaced the post-industrial wilderness that ran<br />
alongside the estuary.<br />
Even the old burnt-out cars have now gone, swallowed up by the<br />
ground, their lives now joining those, of earlier and more ancient<br />
artefacts below. Helping on a local archaeological dig, I found in<br />
the medieval layer, clay pipes and pottery all infused with heating<br />
oil leaking from a nearby office.<br />
It is a landscape of strangeness and contradiction. I like to<br />
contrast the the power of this coast and the moorland wilderness<br />
I visit, by including their car parks and roads that take people into<br />
their depths. Also to show a playfulness of the modern world by<br />
producing my images out of materials that perhaps could have<br />
been taken out of a skip.<br />
As always when visiting old friends, there are certainties mixed<br />
with surprises. Love, regret, joy, fear, feelings of loss, and time<br />
now gone, but also of renewal and celebration.<br />
<strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Hardwick</strong>. 2015<br />
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White Sea, Estuary, Wind and Cows<br />
mixed media on panels | 175 x 351 cm<br />
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Abandoned Quarry, Moor and Sea<br />
mixed media on panels | 180 x 345 cm<br />
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High Moor and Jet Fighter (Roar)<br />
mixed media on panel | 151 x 245 cm<br />
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Old Quarry, Road, Moor and Wind<br />
mixed media on panel | 119 x 174 cm<br />
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Late Light, Beach, Brown Estuary and Car Park<br />
mixed media on panel | 145 x 175 cm<br />
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Estuary, Bream, Brown Coast<br />
mixed media on panel | 123 x 172 cm<br />
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Purple Estuary, Beach and Old Railway Sidings<br />
mixed media on panel | 154 x 175 cm<br />
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Winter, Moor, Yellow Light<br />
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mixed media on panel | 123 x 152 cm
Winter, Moor, Valley, Sunset<br />
mixed media on panel | 121 x 152 cm<br />
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Estuary, Cliffs, Beach<br />
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mixed media on panel | 100 x 134 cm
Estuary, Cliffs and Car Park<br />
mixed media on panel | 104 x 134 cm<br />
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Estuary, Purple Sea, Wind, Clouds<br />
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mixed media on panel | 63 x 92 cm
Wind, Cloud, Moor<br />
mixed media on panel | 62 x 84 cm<br />
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Estuary, Wind, Grey Sea<br />
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mixed media on panel | 60 x 76 cm
Valley and Clouds<br />
mixed media on panel | 60 x 70 cm<br />
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Late Light, Headland<br />
mixed media on panel | 103 x 134 cm<br />
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Estuary, Coast<br />
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mixed media on panel | 60 x 70 cm
High Moor and Road<br />
mixed media on panel | 60 x 70 cm<br />
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Dull Day, Dark Moor<br />
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mixed media on panel | 60 x 77 cm
Estuary, Cliffs and Beach<br />
mixed media on panel | 43 x 54 cm<br />
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Beach Estuary<br />
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mixed media on panel | 41 x 51 cm
Black Estuary<br />
mixed media on panel | 43 x 54 cm<br />
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Wind, Rain and Buried Car<br />
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mixed media on panel | 36 x 47 cm
High Moor, Grey Light<br />
mixed media on panel | 36 x 47 cm<br />
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Wind, Rain, Wilderness<br />
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mixed media on panel | 36 x 47 cm
Autumn Purple Moor<br />
mixed media on panel | 32 x 47 cm<br />
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Grey Sky, Dartmoor<br />
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mixed media on panel | 33 x 41 cm
Old Workings, Wind, White and Blue Sky<br />
mixed media on panel | 33 x 41 cm<br />
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Two Horses, Moor and Standing Stone<br />
mixed media on panel | 25 x 30 cm<br />
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Published by Millennium to coincide with the exhibition ‘Scarred Wilderness’ by <strong>Andrew</strong> <strong>Hardwick</strong><br />
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