Louise Hardy’s work draws on aerial photography as its starting point, along with her fascination with brutalist architecture, the detritus of war and the abandoned ‘Ghost City’ building sites of China. The resulting intricate compositions, constructed through layers of mark-making, suggest a topography of disorientating, tilting perspectives, and a moment in flux alive with kinetic potential.
Drawing has always been at the heart of her practice. She uses urgent, scratchy, bodily applications of a variety of mediums with spontaneity, enjoying this greater sense of jeopardy. Though the process is gestural and intuitive, she often introduces stencils to bring order back into the chaos. These combined languages – of knowing and not knowing - set up an ambiguity and tension within the work, as a space or place in time emerges.
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