when: 03 - 25 February 2023 | venue: Stanley Street Gallery | cost: Free | address: 1/52-54 Stanley Street, Darlinghurst NSW 2010 | website: https://stanleystreetgallery.com.au/
published: 06 Feb 2023, 5 min read
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These images are meditations on evanescence, a response to the way dreams elude us, abstracting and vanishing the more we try to recall them. Like fire, water and smoke. Not unlike the process of making art.
'The figures in my work are sleepwalkers. In heightened states of mind, their gestures and words are inarticulate. They all seem mute or muted.
Throughout these images, I have cast a small repertory of quite minimal pictorial elements.
The calligraphy brush, a tool for turning inspiration into forms, draws no lasting shape.
The gold-leaf screen, a medium on which to make art, is merely liminal.
And moments of contact between the human figures are just as illusory: shadows touching shadows.
The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi nurtures the authentic in its embrace of three realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.'
Image credits
Luke Hardy, PATINA XXV, 2014-2021, dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 60 cm
Luke Hardy, PATINA XXVII, 2021 dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 120 cm
Luke Hardy, PATINA XLIII, 2018-2022, dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 120 cm
Luke Hardy, PATINA VII, 2014, dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 90 cm
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These images are meditations on evanescence, a response to the way dreams elude us, abstracting and vanishing the more we try to recall them. Like fire, water and smoke. Not unlike the process of making art.
'The figures in my work are sleepwalkers. In heightened states of mind, their gestures and words are inarticulate. They all seem mute or muted.
Throughout these images, I have cast a small repertory of quite minimal pictorial elements.
The calligraphy brush, a tool for turning inspiration into forms, draws no lasting shape.
The gold-leaf screen, a medium on which to make art, is merely liminal.
And moments of contact between the human figures are just as illusory: shadows touching shadows.
The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi nurtures the authentic in its embrace of three realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.'
Image credits
Luke Hardy, PATINA XXV, 2014-2021, dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 60 cm
Luke Hardy, PATINA XXVII, 2021 dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 120 cm
Luke Hardy, PATINA XLIII, 2018-2022, dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 120 cm
Luke Hardy, PATINA VII, 2014, dye sublimation on aluminium, 60 x 90 cm
Go see Luke Hardy | The Waking Dream 2023.
Luke Hardy | The Waking Dream 2023 is on 03 - 25 February 2023. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Darlinghurst. Call 02 9368 1142 for details. Visit their website at https://stanleystreetgallery.com.au/.
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