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Mixed Media, Textile on Aluminum
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George, Machine woven tapestry with aluminium pole, Edition of 15 plus 2 APs, 2023. These are made from images of Harris's large oil paintings. This artwork was exhibited at Saatchi Gallery in 2023 in the Beyond the Gaze - Reclaiming the Landscape exhibition. Kirsty’s artworks traverse the boundaries of creation and destruction. Harris continually dissects her own complicated relationship with the subject of the atom bomb and navigates the tension of the desolate beauty of the landscape Vs the violent event that scars and transforms it forever. Harris’s tapestries are created from images of her oil paintings. By introducing the iconic mushroom cloud, into the tradition of tapestry, she manufactures an intriguing spectacle. With a sly nod towards Guernica or the Bayeux Tapestry as historical documents, these contemplations on a split second encompass the craft, the catastrophic act and the meditative result. All are vying for attention. Yet these tapestries are woven by machines, calling into question the notion of “women’s work”. Up close up they are a cacophony of colour whereas viewed from a distance their muted and rather polite colour palette presides. While a nuclear reaction consumes only a millisecond of time, Harris’s tapestries seem to move at a slow and deliberate pace. They transcend their status as mere decorative objects, becoming repositories of history, culture, and artistic tradition.
2023
Textile on Aluminum
15
55.9 W x 78 H x 0.2 D in
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Kirsty Harris b. 1978 Brought up in Yorkshire, England Based in London, UK. I am a multi-disciplinary artist making work based around the imagery and data collected on nuclear explosions. I make work in a wide range of media from vast oil paintings and projection installations, to delicate drawings and ceramics you can hold in your hand. I have exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery - London, Royal Academy - London, Vane Gallery - Newcastle, Galerie 37 - Berlin, Semjon Contemporary - Berlin, and in the Contemporary British Painting Prize, UK. (Plus many more)
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