SCULPTURE
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PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
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THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
THE NATURE OF WANTING - ARTIST STATEMENT
‘The Nature of Wanting’ is a body of work that addresses the unsustainable consumption of the human race. As a species people continuously process resources of social, environmental and economic value with little regard for the future. Materials are extracted, refined and transformed into fleeting 'objects of desire'. Though a face-paced lifestyle only encourages a focus on the final product, their consumers have become detached from the process that created them. Resulting in a reduced appreciation between these 'objects of desire' and the methods used to create them. A disassociation that contributes to a wasteful attitude towards both labour and environmental resources.
This exhibition explores human body as a machine that seeks out and consumes through unsustainable resource gathering processes. Representing all 'objects of desire' is a small stepped pyramid that appears in several of the works. Whether through representation or suggestion, human presence provides context and narrative for this pyramid to generate discussion of humanity’s consumption habits.
HARRISON SEE | 习海瑞
Harrison See (b. 1990) is a Perth-born contemporary painter who completed his bachelors of Visual Arts at Edith Cowan University (ECU) upon receiving the 2016 Louise Macfie Painting Prize. In 2017 See was awarded first class honours for his practice-led research carried out in Shanghai. Since then he has held six solo shows and seven collaborative exhibitions, both across Western Australia and China. He has also undertaken four artist residencies within Western Australia and a fifth in Xiamen, Fujian. See is a New Colombo Plan Alumni, as well as the recipient of a Research Training Program Scholarship, a Yagan Square Digital Tower Screen Initiative (MRA), an Ellenbrook-Swan Art Award, multiple Research Culture Grants (ECU), and most recently, an Arts U-15k grant (DLGSC). In recent years See has taught painting at both the Mundaring Arts Centre and Midland Junction Arts Centre, while also working as an assistant artist within ECU’s School of Arts and Humanities. At present, he is a PhD candidate within the School of Arts and Humanities at ECU. See’s doctoral research focusses on how cross-cultural collaboration can lead to new understandings of hybrid Australian identities.
See’s painting practice focusses on the use of allegory and symbolism to navigate cultural divergence. Through an approach to contemporary mythmaking that integrates storytelling tropes from videogames, he renders figurative landscapes rich in iconography that explore the spaces between cultural communities. This interest began during See’s time spent in China where he focussed on the ubiquitous—and equally problematic—East/West binary. This interest has since shifted towards notions of cultural hybridity with Western Australia’s diverse populations. Notions that are explored through See’s spontaneous and dialogic approach to contemporary mythmaking; an emergent creative practice extended by his recent cross-cultural collaborative research.
Harrison See (2019), Bridge Crossing (Sun Sets at the Gate) [detail], oil on board
Education
2019- PhD (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University (ECU), WA – [PhD candidate]
2017 Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours), Edith Cowan University (ECU), WA
2016 Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University (ECU), WA
2011 Bachelor of Arts (Design), Majoring in Industrial Design, Curtin University, WA
Awards & Grants
2021 Arts U-15k, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) – $4000
→ [Harrison See, Desmond Mah + Aasiya Evans]
2020 Ellenbrook Overall Prize, Ellenbrook-Swan Art Award – $1000
Yagan Square Digital Tower Screen Initiative, Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority – $1000
→ [Harrison See + Desmond Mah]
Research Culture Grant, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University – $400
→ [Harrison See, Jane Ziemons, Suz Ellis + Tasia Adjii]
2019 Research Culture Grant, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University – $400
→ [Harrison See, Jane Ziemons, Laura Mitchell, Gale Mason + Tasia Adjii]
2018 Research Training Program Scholarship, Federal Government of Australia – $85,000
2015 The Louise Macfie Painting Prize, Edith Cowan University – $2,000
New Colombo Plan Scholarship, Federal Government of Australia – $35,000
New Colombo Plan Student Mobility Grant, Edith Cowan University – $1,200
2010 Design Award for Excellence, Curtin University
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Hollow Flight, Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA
2018 Weightless, Kent Street Gallery, Victoria Park, WA
Urban Tree, The Lobby, Swanbourne, WA
Physical Mindfulness of Painting, Mundaring Arts Centre (Gallery 2), Mundaring, WA
2017 Tower of Modern | 当潮之塔, Chinese European Art Centre | 中国欧洲艺术中心, Xiamen, China
2016 The Nature of Wanting, Studio 281, Maylands, WA
Artist Residencies
2021 Perth College, Mount Lawley, WA – 1 week(s)
2020 Fringe World Festival, Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley, WA – 4 week(s)
2018 Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, Victoria Park, WA – 10 week(s)
Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, WA – 6 week(s)
2017 Chinese European Art Centre | 中国欧洲艺术中心, Xiamen, China – 3 month(s)
Collaborative Exhibitions
2021 A Place We Call Home, Stala Contemporary, West Perth, WA
Polyphony: CERAH Exchange Showcase, Fringe World Festival, Gallery 25, Mount Lawley, WA
2020 Intermission, Yagan Square, Perth, WA
Nexus: A Group Show, Perth Fringe Festival, Spectrum Project Space, Mount Lawley, WA
2018 Paradise’s Parasite III | 寄生者 III, Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA
2017 Passage Self Strange, Turner Galleries (Engine Room 2), Northbridge, WA
Paradise’s Parasite II | 寄生者II, The Sino-British College | 英皇茶室, Shanghai, China
Paradise’s Parasite | 寄生者, Hujiang Gallery | 沪江画廊, Shanghai, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 City of Joondalup IAP (Invitation Art Prize), Whitford City, Joondalup
Industrial Mythos, INTOO Studios, Northbridge, WA
ION II (In Our Nature), Lost Eden Creative ARI, Dwellingup, WA
The Mandorla Art Award, Stala Contemporary, West Perth, WA
2020 Tenth International Exhibition of Traditional Fine Arts | 第十届国际传统艺术邀请展, Shanghai Art Collection Museum | 上海艺术收藏博物馆
Tied Up With String, Mundaring Arts Centre, Mundaring, WA
2019 Nexus: A Group Show, Gallery 25, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA
2018 Sculptures on the Scarp, Darlington Arts Festival, Darlington, WA
2017 Stations of the Cross, Wesley Church, Perth, WA / Geraldton Regional Art Gallery, Geraldton, WA
Extended Focus, Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA
34th Annual Sculpture Survey Exhibition, Gomboc Gallery & Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
2016 Third Space Project, Hujiang Gallery | 沪江画廊, Shanghai, China
2015 Impact 9 International Printmaking Conference, China Academy of Art | 中国美术学院, Hangzhou, China
32nd Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
2014 31st Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
Commissions
2021 Personal Collection, Perth, WA
2020 WA Parks Foundation, Perth, WA
Private Collection, Perth, WA
2019 Private Collection, Perth, WA
2017 Stations of the Cross, Perth, WA
Publications
- See. H (2021). Dialogic Painting and Mythology: Cross-cultural collaboration amidst COVID restrictions ACUADS 2020: Crisis and Resilience. ACUADS.
- Mason, G. & See. H. (2021). Creativity in Crises: Adapting a community of practice through a landscape of COVID-based disturbances. ACUADS 2020: Crisis and Resilience. ACUADS.
- Adams, L., See, H., Bell, F. (2020). Public Arts: the academy engaging with Main Roads WA, industry and community. ACUADS 2019: Engagement. ACUADS.