HARMINDER
JUDGE

OPENING RECEPTION:
Thursday, 5 November 2026, 6 - 8 PM
A performance will take place during the opening.

Harminder Judge b. 1982 Rotherham, UK/ Lives and works in London, UK. He graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2021.
Imbued with an indelible vibrancy and depth, Harminder Judge makes transportive sculptural works that simultaneously reference Indian neo-tantric painting, as well as the abstract expressionist and colourfield movements of the 20th century. His alchemical process involves layering pigments into pools of wet plaster followed by prolonged periods of excavation; sanding, polishing and oiling.
This all results in a gleaming, vibrating surface where monolithic forms, seething horizons, and emanations of colour rise up from the solid granite-like depth beneath. The works as such exist in the present moment; Harminder has referred to them not as paintings but portals that offer us a wide plane to look through, allowing for broader contemplation to take place.

[…] If the entrance and wall are mud, his new unpolished two-panel work is dust. The work reads more like a chalk drawing than a painting. Fleshy pastel tones rest on the plaster the way pigment rests on paper, barely entering it, and even the deeper colours look dry and powdery. The polished panels are very different. Their surfaces open into a watery depth where colour recedes and folds in on itself like a collapsing star. Behind each image is a core of polystyrene sealed in plaster, built on the same principle as a building panel. I kept calling these surfaces ‘insulated’ before I knew this. The depth comes from hours of sanding, which removes material until the colour underneath emerges, so a great deal of physical labour has gone into making the image seem to retreat. The threshold does something similar in space, where its tapering walls exaggerate the depth of a short passage. […]

Excerpt from the exhibition text by Jade Foster

For the full exhibition text, further information about the artist and his work, and complete exhibition details, please visit our website or refer to the exhibition text and artist’s CV attached to this Private View.