Andrew Hardwick 'Moor

A n d r e w H a r d w i c k . M o o r

‘Moor’ examines the poetic and presented wilderness zones of Penwith, Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor, and represents a personal journey that I have built up with that particular landscape over many years. I hope that these paintings describe some of the sublime and emotive energy experienced on the Moor, perhaps emphasized through the use of the gesture and texture of paint and material, however the paintings are polluted with reminders of the contemporary influence on this landscape and might be seen purely as romantic if they were not distorted, sometimes delicately and sometimes radically in subject matter, texture and meaning by modern intervention. A winding road cuts through ‘Crossing the Moor’, etched into an otherwise overwhelming elemental moorland triptych, likewise a real car radiator sits in the painting ‘Distant Long Barrow and Car Radiator’ and toy

cars predominate in an image of the A30 and Dartmoor. a beer can is glued to another vast triptych of a moorland stream. It is a layered landscape, literally and metaphorically. The paintings are built with different types of paint, varnish, plaster, plastics, soils, pigments, felt, hay and other unconventional materials. To this rich surface often relevant artifacts are added, suggesting reminders or a memory, which is intrinsic to me. The idea of a layered landscape is one that fits my experience of the Moor, its geology and history, being equally matched by idiosyncratic histories, memories of those who visit. Perhaps it is a confused notion that I seek.

I hope that no image is left untouched by the awareness of change, memory, history or emotion, often the landscapes story or journey is intentionally opaque, but I hope that these paintings remind us that we are but another layer in time.

Andrew Hardwick, 2012

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Crossing the Moor

oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on board

192 x 343 cm

Brown Sea and Sky Exmoor


194 x 343 cm

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Isolated Stream, Beer Can


193 x 370 cm

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Exmoor Coast


205 x 372 cm

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Last light, North Moor, Three Tanks


160 x 343 cm

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Wind, Rain, Moor


140 x 216 cm

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Valley, Cows, South Moor


170 x 245 cm

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Distant Long Barrow, Car Radiator


180 x 235 cm

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Wind, Moor, Old Quarry


144 x 245 cm

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Winter, South Moor


92 x 120 cm

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Tree, Penwith


92 x 122 cm

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Grey Day, South Moor, Resting Cows


25 x 30 cm

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Grey Day, South Moor, Standing Cows


25 x 30 cm25

Heavy Mist, South Moor, Cows

oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic, hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas

25 x 30 cm26

Two Cows, South Moor


25 x 30 cm

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South Moor, Sheep


25 x 30 cm28

Sheep, Slopes, Dartmoor


25 x 30 cm29

Winter Light, Dartmoor

oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic,hay, ashes nd other collage material on canvas

25 x 30 cm30

Summer, Conifer Plantation, Dartmoor


25 x 30 cm31

Wind, Rain, South Moor


25 x 30 cm32

Grey Day, South Moor


25 x 30 cm

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Summer, Bodmin Moor


30 x 40 cm 34

Autumn, Bodmin Moor


30 x 40 cm 35

Old Quarry, Dartmoor

oil, acrylic, varnish, earth pigment, pva, plastic,hay, ashes and other collage material on canvas

40 x 50 cm36

Stream, Dartmoor


40 x 50 cm37

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BIOGRAPHY

Based in Bristol, Andrew Hardwick’s work is landscape based and looks at strange wilderness zones, both those seemingly natural and those man made. His paintings play with and subvert traditional ideas of landscape painting and the sublime.

After gaining an MA in Fine Art at the University of Wales, Cardiff, Hardwick has gone on to show in numerous exhibitions across the country including extensively at the RWA, where Hardwick is an elected member of the Academy. Moor is Hardwick’s second solo exhibition at Millennium.

Old Road, North Moor


93 x 123 cm

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A30, Cornwall


94 x 105 cm

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