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Rebecca F Hardy: ‘Aildanio’

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‘Aildanio’ is a installation of 2D and 3D objects. At the centre of the artwork is a gold painted pole protruding from the wall. Roughly 200cm from the floor, placed on the pole is a curved form shaped like a pill in the colour blue made from spongy foam. To the left of the pole is another spongy foam in the shape of a curved pill, placed half on the floor and half at the base of the wall. Curved shapes and forms in royal blue, hot pink and gold is screen-printed on the form. As well as vinyl machine cut curved shapes in the same colours are on the form and on the wall above. To the left of this is a large see through sheet of thin plastic, taped to the wall using gold washi tape. Drawn on the plastic are anatomy drawings of the brain, in curved shapes in the colours hot pink, royal blue and gold. Back to the centre and the gold pole and to the right hand-side half way up the wall are 3 small wooden shaped ovals covered in screen-printed patterns in royal blue, hot pink and gold. Below are 3 hand cut vinyl shapes in the same colours.

Rebecca is a multi-disciplined artist; her work is the prolonged fascination with cataloguing artefacts, repetitive movements, and the subtlety of objects. From drawings to screen-prints, photography, video, live-art, sculptural forms and installations.

Exploration of materials and relationships between surface and object, colour, layers, and patterns drives the process. Relatively the artwork relates to the conduct of human nature, its behaviour to perform consciously and subconsciously and the complexity of emotions upon the individual.

Research, exploration and use of human anatomy, domestic objects and every so often her own fluttering state of mind are embedded in the work. Making her sculptures and installations act as vessels and metaphors and co-exist with an array
of materials and the space it temporarily consists in.

‘Aildanio’ is a new body of work for the Art Prize. The balance or lack of balance we find ourselves in is a constant battle for Rebecca. ‘Aildanio’ is the fusing of 2D and 3D artworks, using patterns and shapes from her drawings and designs of simplified forms of anatomy and cells. Reacting to the space given and her temporal current state of mind.

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