Andrew Hardwick . Moor
‘Moor’ examines the poetic and presented wilderness zones of Penwith, Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, and represents a personal journey that I have built up with that particular landscape over many years. I hope that these paintings describe some of the sublime and emotive energy experienced on the Moor, perhaps emphasized through the use of the gesture and texture of paint and material, however the paintings are polluted with reminders of the contemporary influence on this landscape and might be seen purely as romantic if they were not distorted, sometimes delicately and sometimes radically in subject matter, texture and meaning by modern intervention. A winding road cuts through ‘Crossing the Moor’, etched into an otherwise overwhelming elemental moorland triptych, likewise a real car radiator sits in the painting ‘Distant Long Barrow and Car Radiator’ and toy
cars predominate in an image of the A30 and Dartmoor. a beer can is glued to another vast triptych of a moorland stream. It is a layered landscape, literally and metaphorically. The paintings are built with different types of paint, varnish, plaster, plastics, soils, pigments, felt, hay and other unconventional materials. To this rich surface often relevant artifacts are added, suggesting reminders or a memory, which is intrinsic to me. The idea of a layered landscape is one that fits my experience of the Moor, its geology and history, being equally matched by idiosyncratic histories, memories of those who visit. Perhaps it is a confused notion that I seek. I hope that no image is left untouched by the awareness of change, memory, history or emotion, often the landscapes story or journey is intentionally opaque, but I hope that these paintings remind us that we are but another layer in time. Andrew Hardwick, 2012
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Crossing the Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 192 x 343 cm
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Brown Sea and Sky Exmoor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 194 x 343 cm
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Isolated Stream, Beer Can oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 193 x 370 cm
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Exmoor Coast oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 205 x 372 cm
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Last light, North Moor, Three Tanks oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 160 x 343 cm
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Wind, Rain, Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 140 x 216 cm
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Valley, Cows, South Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 170 x 245 cm
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Distant Long Barrow, Car Radiator oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 180 x 235 cm
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Wind, Moor, Old Quarry oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 144 x 245 cm
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Winter, South Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 92 x 120 cm
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Tree, Penwith oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 92 x 122 cm
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Grey Day, South Moor, Resting Cows oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 25 x 30 cm
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Grey Day, South Moor, Standing Cows oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 25 x 30 cm
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Heavy Mist, South Moor, Cows oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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Two Cows, South Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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South Moor, Sheep oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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Sheep, Slopes, Dartmoor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 25 x 30 cm
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Winter Light, Dartmoor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes nd other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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Summer, Conifer Plantation, Dartmoor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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Wind, Rain, South Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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Grey Day, South Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 25 x 30 cm
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Summer, Bodmin Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 30 x 40 cm
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Autumn, Bodmin Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 30 x 40 cm
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Old Quarry, Dartmoor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 40 x 50 cm
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Stream, Dartmoor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas 40 x 50 cm
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BIOGRAPHY Based in Bristol, Andrew Hardwick’s work is landscape based and looks at strange wilderness zones, both those seemingly natural and those man made. His paintings play with and subvert traditional ideas of landscape painting and the sublime. After gaining an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Cardiff, Hardwick has gone on to show in numerous exhibitions across the country including extensively at the RWA, where Hardwick is an elected member of the Academy. Moor is Hardwick’s second solo exhibition at Millennium.
Old Road, North Moor oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 93 x 123 cm
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A30, Cornwall oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board 94 x 105 cm
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