Artist Lecture
Alex Hartley
- Thu 2 May , 7:30pm
- 3 West North 2.1
This season’s Artist Lecture is by Alex Hartley. Hartley has just completed Nowhereisland, one of twelve public art commissions for the Artists Taking The Lead 2012 Cultural Olympiad project. Nowhereisland was selected for the south west commission and was an island that journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the South West coast of England in summer 2012, stopping at ports and harbours as a visiting island nation. Hartley will be discussing the project and his broader practice and influences.
Working primarily with photography, often incorporating it into sculpture and installation, Hartley's work addresses complicated and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward the built and natural environments. Encounters with buildings are grounded by conventions and expectations, but Hartley shows us new ways of physically experiencing and thinking about our constructed surroundings - through surface and line, scale and materials, locations and contexts. Since 1997 Hartley has been engaged in collaborative site-specific projects with architects including David Adjaye Associates and Alford, Hall, Monaghan and Morris.
Born in 1963, Alex Hartley lives and works in London and Devon. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1990, Hartley has exhibited extensively in both national and international exhibitions. He is represented by the Victoria Miro Gallery, London.
- Free admission - all welcome