One of the most eccentrically driven makers of his generation, Harding’s practice over the last 15 years has aimed to split, break and reinvigorate the possibilities of abstract painting.

The current work uses a litany of motifs, such as lines, arrows, grids and text, which are subjected to a type of change and ruination in the making. The paintings use the prosaic language of modernist abstract painting and then react against this position, this stability, by enforcing a type of dissolution within the continually changing surface of the work. The painting is set up to fall, twist and react away from this previous state and position; allowing another structure and idea to emerge. Harding has described this reaction as 'agitated and liberating. The paintings have to change themselves to let the world in'.The paintings are time based where the medium moves and breaks free of the support over a period of months. Harding has also described these works as 'being grown rather than painted' and 'the practice often aims to side step conventional painting through the use of a series of eccentric devices used to make the work. Error, doubt and cancellation are used and in a way turned inside out to make beautiful dynamic and optimistic works.

Alexis Harding has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1995 in group and solo exhibitions.