Luke Harnden
Region: West
In my work, the medium of paint is not only a means to depict
subject matter, but a subject in itself. I use mediated images from
digital and print technologies as sources to appropriate, altering
and eradicating representational forms in a process of reverse
anthropomorphism. The illusion of space that I create using
conventional oil painting techniques is disrupted by gestural
and mechanically aided mark making that calls attention to the
flatness of the canvas, altering the status of a two-dimensional
image to that of a painted object that exists in three-dimensional
space. This series of work demonstrates a particular point within
an ongoing inquiry into the formal components of painting and its
sculptural and technological considerations.