SELECTED WORKS BY Anne Hardy
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Anne Hardy
Cell
2004
diasec mounted c-type print
120 x 150 cm |
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Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to the most minute detail. Using the transient nature of photography, Hardy’s haunting images serve less to document, but rather to add to the suspension of belief; withholding the actual experience of her environments, her photos evoke a sense of mystery, enticing the viewer’s fantasies to entangle with her own.
In pieces such as Cell and Untitled VI, Hardy’s cluttered interiors become sites of wonder and unease as hordes of miscellaneous found objects compile with an obsessive’s eccentric order. Hardy’s subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light. Printed in large format, Hardy’s photos give the viewer a sense of looking through a window, peeping in on something perhaps better left unknown. |
Anne Hardy
Untitled VI
2005
diasec mounted c-type print
120 x 150 cm |
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Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to the most minute detail. Using the transient nature of photography, Hardy’s haunting images serve less to document, but rather to add to the suspension of belief; withholding the actual experience of her environments, her photos evoke a sense of mystery, enticing the viewer’s fantasies to entangle with her own.
In pieces such as Cell and Untitled VI, Hardy’s cluttered interiors become sites of wonder and unease as hordes of miscellaneous found objects compile with an obsessive’s eccentric order. Hardy’s subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light. Printed in large format, Hardy’s photos give the viewer a sense of looking through a window, peeping in on something perhaps better left unknown. |
Anne Hardy
Cipher
2007
diasec mounted c-type print
144 x 174 cm |
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Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to the most minute detail. Using the transient nature of photography, Hardy’s haunting images serve less to document, but rather to add to the suspension of belief; withholding the actual experience of her environments, her photos evoke a sense of mystery, enticing the viewer’s fantasies to entangle with her own.
In pieces such as Cell and Untitled VI, Hardy’s cluttered interiors become sites of wonder and unease as hordes of miscellaneous found objects compile with an obsessive’s eccentric order. Hardy’s subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light. Printed in large format, Hardy’s photos give the viewer a sense of looking through a window, peeping in on something perhaps better left unknown. |
Anne Hardy
Building
2006
diasec mounted c-type print
120 x 150 cm |
 
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Strange, fantastical, and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. Working in her studio, Hardy builds each of her sets entirely from scratch; a labour intensive process of constructing a barren room, then developing its elaborate interior down to the most minute detail. Using the transient nature of photography, Hardy’s haunting images serve less to document, but rather to add to the suspension of belief; withholding the actual experience of her environments, her photos evoke a sense of mystery, enticing the viewer’s fantasies to entangle with her own.
In pieces such as Cell and Untitled VI, Hardy’s cluttered interiors become sites of wonder and unease as hordes of miscellaneous found objects compile with an obsessive’s eccentric order. Hardy’s subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light. Printed in large format, Hardy’s photos give the viewer a sense of looking through a window, peeping in on something perhaps better left unknown. |
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anne hardy
ArtSway in the New Forest is presenting an exhibition of large-scale photographs by London artist Anne Hardy. Interior Spaces will be on display from the end of February.
Anne Hardy lives and works in London but this exhibition includes new work that was produced during her residency at ArtSway in the autumn.
At first glance her images appear to be photographs of existing places but they are, in fact, sets that have been constructed by the artist in her studio.
The subjects of her photos are objects which she has found. These range from Christmas trees and antlers to balloons and butterflies - but not in the way you might expect.
These are not pretty nature images. The photos are almost unnerving with a feeling of abandonment and desolation. They depict how people constantly seek to manipulate the space around them and how objects can often become taken for granted.
In her photograph entitled Lumber, Hardy has constructed a room-like setting with unpainted plasterboard and foam sealant. This seemingly neglected room is the resting place for old Christmas trees which have been left to decay.
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Source: bbc.co.uk
anne hardy's interior landscapes
Sometimes we get fixed on particular images, configurations of things that transcend their physical presence. We internalise them, turn them into private metaphors, return to them in dreams, try to puzzle out the hermetic secrets they hold. Anne Hardy's Interior Landscapes are vivid representations of our mental images of these places.
Pictures of strange, claustrophobic, often slightly menacing interiors, her photographs seem to document private passions taken to extremes. In some pictures the natural world intrudes, or threatens to intrude, inside. Vines are nurtured by artificial light in a shallow hatch; the large windows of a control room are piled high with dead leaves. Some of the Interior Landscapes function as surreal mementos mori: bare and forlorn tree trunks bedecked with thick cobwebs; antlers casting spidery shadows against a grubby wall.
A brightly lit room is stuffed with discarded Christmas trees. An interior is overrun with light bulbs and brightly coloured cables. These are spaces of the imagination that follow their own inexorable logic. We look for clues that might help us find our bearings but the spaces are alienating, speaking of unfathomable obsessions.
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Source: artsway.org.uk
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