Exhibitions
Helen Hardaker: Watching not Helping: 5 crows and the Mondrian tree
Depicting the joys and trials of everyday life through the eyes of watchful crows and the imagined lives of insects, animals, moths and birds.
Helen Hardaker's work explores the interfaces of lived experiences, and human lives. Exploring catastrophic global degradation, sustainable and equitable existences and real time responses from both the human and animal kingdoms, Watching Not Helping is an exhibition of all-new work.
With its full title Watching Not Helping: 5 crows and the Mondrian tree, Hardaker's forthcoming exhibition is inspired by crows or corvid families inhabiting winter trees. Engaging in familiar behaviours, like the instinct to co-habit, perform rituals of evening roosting, bedding down, chattering, watching and sleeping. The corvid family at large, represent human life, silhouetted against winter skies. Along with road networks and inhabited communal spaces, Hardaker uses pale winter hues and bright sunsets to illuminate the branches of the trees and the liminal spaces in-between, giving thought to imaginative conversations and philosophical speculation.
20th century artist Piet Mondrian described capturing the spaces in-between when manipulating the beauty of nature into abstract composition. Now in the 21st Century with nature in the spotlight and art still a vehicle to communicate beauty, Hardaker uses these same liminal and in-between spaces to play with composition and the ambiguities and paradoxes of human existence.
Not to be missed, this all-new work comes with opportunities for public participation.
Group workshops run by the artist: enjoy the processes of mono printing; subjects linked to the exhibition and materials provided.
Thursdays & Fridays 11am - 2pm (two sessions with a break in between)
Saturdays 12pm - 2pm
Opening times:
Thursday - Saturday 10am - 3pm
With its full title Watching Not Helping: 5 crows and the Mondrian tree, Hardaker's forthcoming exhibition is inspired by crows or corvid families inhabiting winter trees. Engaging in familiar behaviours, like the instinct to co-habit, perform rituals of evening roosting, bedding down, chattering, watching and sleeping. The corvid family at large, represent human life, silhouetted against winter skies. Along with road networks and inhabited communal spaces, Hardaker uses pale winter hues and bright sunsets to illuminate the branches of the trees and the liminal spaces in-between, giving thought to imaginative conversations and philosophical speculation.
20th century artist Piet Mondrian described capturing the spaces in-between when manipulating the beauty of nature into abstract composition. Now in the 21st Century with nature in the spotlight and art still a vehicle to communicate beauty, Hardaker uses these same liminal and in-between spaces to play with composition and the ambiguities and paradoxes of human existence.
Not to be missed, this all-new work comes with opportunities for public participation.
Group workshops run by the artist: enjoy the processes of mono printing; subjects linked to the exhibition and materials provided.
Thursdays & Fridays 11am - 2pm (two sessions with a break in between)
Saturdays 12pm - 2pm
Opening times:
Thursday - Saturday 10am - 3pm
