SCULPTURE
SCULPTURE
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
PAINT & INK
CV
CV
CV
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
TRAILS OF RED & GREEN
PAINTING CREATED DURING A THREE-MONTH RESIDENCY (2018) @ MUNDARING ART CENTRE (MAC), MUNDARING, WA
oil on loose canvas
oil on loose canvas
Harrison See in MAC studio space
oil on loose canvas
Trails of Red & Green was painted during a three-month-long artist residency program, title 'Physical Mindfulness of Painting' at Mundaring Arts Centre (MAC). Harrison See explored a deeper appreciation of the physical act of painting by constructing a series of weighted brushes. These brushes aimed to enhance See's mindfulness of his movements and markmaking; the work itself is a response to the surrounding Mundaring landscape.
PRE-RESIDENCY SHOWCASE
A SERIES OF PRE-RESIDENCY PAINTINGS (2018) @ MUNDARING ART CENTRE (MAC), MUNDARING, WA
A series of painted studies created pre-residency that responded to the surrounding Mundaring landscape; the works were showcased in Harrison See's studio during his residency.
URBAN TREE
SOLO EXHIBITION (2018) @ THE LOBBY, SWANBOURNE, WA
Urban Tree is the fourth solo exhibition by artist Harrison See and represents a painted investigation of the flora within Perth’s urban spaces. Borrowing from real sites in and around Northbridge, See has created fictional landscapes that play with the relationship between natural and man-made features. These scenes exaggerate light and composition of existing spaces, while also removing the human figure to offer a mix of serenity and tension. See’s work is in part a response to his experience of returning home after an extended stay overseas, having a sudden awareness of the relatively small number of trees in Perth’s built up areas.
WEIGHTLESS
SOLO EXHIBITION (OPEN STUDIOS & MAIN GALLERY SHOW) @ KENT STREET GALLERY, VICTORIA PARK, WA
IRON-EARTH SKY
ARTWORK EXHIBITED (2018) AT "PARADISES PARASITE III" @ SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE, MOUNT LAWLEY, WA
oil on loose canvas (series of 3)
oil on loose canvas (series of 3)
oil on loose canvas (series of 5)
TREATED STEEL & STONE
TREATED STEEL & STONE (PHOTOGRAPHED DERREN HALL)
TREATED STEEL & STONE
TREATED STEEL & STONE
TREATED STEEL & STONE
STAINLESS STEEL, FABRIC, STRING (PHOTOGRAPHED DERREN HALL)
STAINLESS STEEL, FABRIC, STRING
STAINLESS STEEL, FABRIC, STRING (PHOTOGRAPHED DERREN HALL)
Harrison See’s artworks respond to the unsustainable use of the world’s natural resources with reference to the cross-cultural understanding between Heaven & Earth. These painted and sculptural works speak to the practice of extracting materials from one part of the earth in order to process them in the other; not-unlike the relationship shared between China’s manufacturing capacity and Australia’s mining industry. This need to draw from ‘the old’ that lies below, in order to build upwards with ‘the new’, has inspired a narrative of precarious towers ascending away from their crumbling foundations.
Review: https://www.seesawmag.com.au/2018/07/in-the-face-of-waste
TOWER OF MODERN III
ARTWORK EXHIBITED (2018) AT "SCULPTURE ON THE SCARP" @ DARLINGTON ARTS FESTIVAL, DARLINGTON, WA
(IMAGE COURTESY OF SAM HOPKINS) STEEL & ROPE
(IMAGE COURTESY OF SAM HOPKINS) STEEL & ROPE
(IMAGE COURTESY OF SAM HOPKINS) STEEL & ROPE
(IMAGE COURTESY OF SAM HOPKINS) STEEL & ROPE
STEEL & ROPE
STEEL & ROPE
STEEL & ROPE
STEEL & ROPE
VARIOUS 2018 STUDIES
