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
INTERMISSION
COLLABORATIVE PAINTING PERFORMANCE (2020) @ YAGAN SQUARE (TODAY IN MY LIFE PROJECT) PERTH, WA)
While maintaining social distancing, contemporary painters Harrison Waed See and Desmond Mah collaborate together creating a large impromptu painting. During this time-lapsed performative painting session Mah and See both draw on cultural iconography as they apply inks, gesso and soy sauce, reworking their own, and each others’ imagery until a conclusion is reached. While painting, the two Perth-based artists improvise a story examining their hybrid cultural identities.
2020 PAINTED STUDIES
TBC
COMMISSION FOR PRIVATE COLLECTION (PERTH, WA)
NEXUS: A GROUP SHOW
COLLABORATIVE RESIDENCY (2020) @ FRINGE WORLD FESTIVAL (SPECTRUM PROJECT SPACE, MOUNT LAWLEY, WA)
Harrison Waed See responds to Akio Makigawa’s artwork as a pseudo-collaborative encounter. This collaboration took the form of a hypothetical dialogue between the two artists as See sought out the writing and artwork of Makigawa; as well as testimony from his still living acquaintances. Through this material, See engaged with Makigawa’s ideas, perspectives and approaches. This experience shifted See’s own approaches to painting and resulted in the creation of two new paintings. The residency was undertaken within a studio space shared with Perth-based artists, Gale Thackery and Laura Mitchell.
Review: https://www.seesawmag.com.au/2020/02/painting-and-process
BENEATH THE TREES
COMMISSION FOR PRIVATE COLLECTION, (PERTH, WA)
VISITORS CENTRE - ARTIST IMPRESSION
COMMISSION FOR WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PARKS FOUNDATION (PERTH, WA)
Painting imagery pending official media release...
