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Alexis Harding ((B. UK, 1973). He studied fine art at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London from 1992 until 1995. His first one-person exhibition took place at the Project Room, Galerij S65 in Aalst, Belgium, in 1997 followed by solo shows at Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, and Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, in 1998. Since 1995 he has shown extensively in two-person and group exhibitions in Ireland, Great Britain and Europe. He was First Prizewinner at John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 2004.
Harding has described his work as being made "within a set of limits that I can only discover by squeezing and pushing these limits to extremes: to present prosaic stuff (paint) in a moment of change and transformation. I want to make a painting through allowing one cohering structure to vanish while another emerges" (2004) and more recently (2007) "the work is deeply controlled yet somehow makes itself through failure and cancellation. I am surprised that on one painting on one day I can be thinking about architecture and the next day on another the Internal body, skin and the pulmonary action of the heart. This is absurd yet completely makes sense! Some paintings and ideas in the studio grow and move over months whilst the site specific wet pieces are temporary and exist for a short period. These two ways of working seem to have liberated each other".
Nick Miller (B. UK, 1962) lives and works in Co Sligo, Ireland. His studio practice focuses on apparently traditional 'genres' - his focus moves continuously between Portraiture, Still Life, Landscape and the Figure. All are connected by an insistence that he works only directly in the presence of his subject - with people or objects in the studio or landscape from the back of his mobile studio - a converted truck. Drawing and painting are valued equally and driven by his commitment to distil the energy and validity of the encounter between artist and subject. His work has an intensity of vision that challenges expectations of being in, seeing, and painting the world.
Miller has presented solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK, Europe and the USA. Including museum shows at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle; and most recently at The Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris; Limerick City Gallery of Art and The New York Studio School.
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