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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 Waed See
Harrison See (2022), I Send You Swans... (after encounters with Mah and Lau) [detail], oil on canvas, 152.5cm x 91.5cm. Photograph: Patricia Amorim
Harrison See (b. 1990) is an arts researcher, contemporary painter and PhD candidate in the School of Arts and Humanities (SAH) at Edith Cowan University (ECU). During his PhD See pursued his interest in allegorical landscapes as a means to explore cultural divergence and plurality. Prior to Far-Away Island, he has undertaken six solo shows, six artist residencies and seven collaborative exhibitions, in Perth and Asia. See completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at ECU in 2015 after receiving the ‘Louise Macfie Painting Prize’. In 2016 he was awarded a New Colombo Plan (NPC) scholarship that funded his honours research in Shanghai, China. After being awarded first class honours for this research, See extended his NPC funding and returned to China in 2017 for a three-month artist’s residency in Xiamen. In 2019 See was awarded a ‘Research Training Program Scholarship’ and returned to ECU to undertake his practice-led PhD research into dialogic cross-cultural collaboration. During See’s PhD research, he has published and/or co-published four conference papers, as well as acted as a facilitator for the interdisciplinary group TINAS (This Is Not A Seminar: Creative research dialogues), a SAH representative for the Vice Chancellor’s Student Advisory Forum and a HDR representative on the ECU Galleries committee. See has also been the co-recipient of; two SAH ‘Research Culture Grants’; a Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) ‘Arts U-15k’ grant; a Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority (MRA) ‘Yagan Square Digital Tower Screen Initiative’ grant. See has also worked as a research assistant for SAH and the School of Education. Currently, he is a research assistant with the ECU node of the Australian Research Council (ARC) ‘Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child’, as well as a SAH tutor for ‘Storytelling and Meaning’.
Education
2022 PhD (Visual Arts), Edith Cowan University (ECU), WA – [PhD examined]
2017 Bachelor of Arts Honours (First Class), 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) – $15,000
2021 Arts U-15k, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries (DLGSC) – $4,000 (co-recipient)
2020 Ellenbrook Overall Prize, Ellenbrook-Swan Art Award – $1000
2020 Yagan Square Digital Tower Screen Initiative (co-recipient), Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority – $1,000 (co-recipient)
2020 Research Culture Grant (co-recipient), School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University – $400 (co-recipient)
2019 Research Culture Grant (co-recipient), School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University – $400 (co-recipient)
2018 Research Training Program Scholarship, Federal Government of Australia – $85,000
2015 The Louise Macfie Painting Prize, Edith Cowan University – $2,000
2015 New Colombo Plan Scholarship, Federal Government of Australia – $35,000
2015 New Colombo Plan Student Mobility Grant, Edith Cowan University – $1,200
2010 Design Award for Excellence, Curtin University
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Far-Away Island, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA
2019 Hollow Flight, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA
2018 Weightless, Kent Street Gallery, Victoria Park, WA
2018 Urban Tree, The Lobby, Swanbourne, WA
2018 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
Curation
2023 HERENOW23: In-Between-ness, Fringe World Festival, Spectrum Project Space (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA [upcoming]
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)
2018 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
2022 Divergent Terrain, Old Customs House, Fremantle, WA
2021 A Place We Call Home, Stala Contemporary, West Perth, WA
2021 Polyphony: CERAH Exchange Showcase, Fringe World Festival, Gallery 25, Mount Lawley, WA
2020 Intermission, Yagan Square, Perth, WA
2020 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
2017 Paradise’s Parasite II | 寄生者II, The Sino-British College | 英皇茶室, Shanghai, China
2017 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
2021 Nexus: A Group Show, Gallery 25 (ECU Galleries), Mount Lawley, WA
2021 Industrial Mythos, INTOO Studios, Northbridge, WA
2021 ION II (In Our Nature), Lost Eden Creative ARI, Dwellingup, WA
2021 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
2020 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
2017 Extended Focus, Spectrum Project Space, ECU, Mount Lawley, WA
2017 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
2015 32nd Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
2014 31st Sculpture Survey, Gomboc Gallery and Sculpture Park, Middle Swan, WA
Publications
See, H. (2022). Encounters Across Dialogic Cross-cultural Collaborative Painting [Doctoral exegesis, Edith Cowan University]. Embargoed 2027
Stevenson, K., Jayakumar, E., See, H., Ryu, Y., & Das, S. (2022). Children’s Perspectives of Digital Citizenship in India, Korea and Australia: Report of Findings from Children’s Digital Citizenship and Safety Roundtables. ECU/Centre for the Digital Child.
Stevenson, K., Jayakumar, E., Le-Viet, T., Ryu, Y., & See, H. (2022). Contexts for Children’s Digital Citizenship in India, Korea and Australia: A Literature Review. ECU/Centre for the Digital Child.
See. H. (2022). Sustained Connection through Material Dialogue: International collaborative painting during the COVID-19 pandemic. ACUADS/DDCA 2021: Conference New Networks. https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/sustained-connection-through-material-dialogue-international-collaborative-painting-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
See. H. (2021). Dialogic Painting and Mythology: Cross-cultural collaboration amidst COVID restrictions. ACUADS 2020: Crisis and Resilience. https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/dialogic-painting-and-mythology-cross-cultural-collaboration-amidst-covid-restrictions/
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. https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/creativity-in-crises-adapting-a-community-of-practice-through-a-landscape-of-covid-based-disturbances/
Adams, L., See, H. Bell, F. (2020). Public Arts: the academy engaging with Main Roads WA, industry and community. ACUADS 2019: Engagement. https://acuads.com.au/conference/article/public-arts-the-academy-engaging-with-main-roads-wa-industry-and-community/