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Harper’s practice is engaged with the idea of evolution. Predominantly an exploration in mark-making, the paintings develop an ever widening vocabulary. Earlier paintings relied on the repetition of a single and simple brush stroke to yield a mono-cultural field of grass.
He lives and works in London and studied at Middlesex University, Royal College of Art and Brighton Polytechnic. Selected exhibitions include: 2006 John Moores 24, Walker Gallery, Liverpool. 2005 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space & UK Tour; Cloud & Vision, Museum of Garden History. He teaches at Goldsmiths College, Central St. Martins and City Lit. |
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Fiona MacDonald makes alternate realities, scenarios or details -paintings and sculptures that act together –which are constructed from various sculptural materials, found objects, living and natural organisms. Her work borrows from sci-fi, Romanticism and an overactive imagination as well as the ongoing experience and observation of nature. There is a constant exploratory roving between the act of making, dealing with the nature of the material, and the seductive gazing at or being in nature. She shows a way through the philosophical and aesthetic fracture between nature and our cognitive experience of it. |
