Andrew Hardwick Public Exhibition at Bridport Art Centre

Andrew Hardwick’s ‘Wounded Land’ opens from Saturday 17 February until 23 March 2024 at the Allsop Gallery, Bridport Art Centre.

‘Wounded Land’ reflects places that are now lost or go unnoticed, the unspectacular and ordinary, often wastelands which are about to be built over. These Edgeland landscapes are filled with forgotten ruins, remote moorland reservoirs, even the occasional Amazon Warehouse. Sunsets, rain and storms also feature heavily in his work.

The exhibition utilises a variety of found materials: soils on board, plastics, canvas, roofing materials, and of course, paint, often decorator’s gloss. Following the romantic painting tradition, these textured “constructions” can be big, sometimes over four metres long.

Andrew paints places that he knows well, especially those near his studio by the Royal Portbury Docks, Bristol, a transient landscape which is gradually being transformed into a modern dock and warehouse area by development. Some of Andrew’s work evokes the more rural landscapes he remembers from his family farm, now existing only in memory or as what he describes as “ghost landscapes.”

The exhibition challenges our complicated relationship with the land.

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