Richard Harding, You are entering a Queer zone
Richard Harding
Australian
Date
2016
Edition / State
18/20
Classification
Print
Dimensions
8 x 30 in. (20.3 x 76.2 cm)
Accession Number
2016.20.20.07
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Memo / Artist Statement
You are entering a Queer zone (2016) operates without a map although suggests movement of some kind. As people move across marked and unmarked boundaries and borders to escape persecution of the plight of the refugee operates heavily within the global consciousness. This can be particularly poignant when reflecting on who is eligible and who is not for official refugee status and how fluid this and other identities are. The announcement "you are entering a queer zone" could be a warning or a welcome.
Biography
Richard Harding is a print-based artist and Senior Lecturer at the School of Art, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. Within a print-based art practice Harding explores the use of printmaking’s intrinsic qualities of sameness and difference through the multiple with the merging of traditional and contemporary print methods. Harding’s visual research is informed by architectural and queer theory utilising print media, analogue and digital, as vehicles for an ongoing art practice. He has produced two-dimensional, installation, video and object-based works.
Harding has been exhibiting for the past 25 years participating in solo and group exhibitions exhibitions in Australia and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections while exhibiting in various modes from public and commercial galleries, to artist run spaces and community-based environments. Harding has worked in industry-based print workshops, like the Australian Print Workshop inc. as a studio supervisor, a custom printer and access artist. He has been involved with the national print organisation; Print Council of Australia as a committee member, Vice President and is currently the Secretary of the governing body.
Harding completed a PhD by Project in 2014 titled, Juxtapose: an exploration of gay masculine identity and its relationship to the closet. The Project was triggered by the discovery of the term straight acting on the internet in the Noughties (2000 – 2009) and has been driven by the paradox that is created when gay and masculine are positioned together within the western patriarchal dominant society where heteronormative masculinity is positioned as alpha with all other forms of masculinity and performance situated beneath it. Printmaking plays a fundamental and interrogative role within this project through its facility of reproducibility and thus production of multiples while the term straight acting activates the print-based preoccupation of the real and unreal, the authentic and replica with the original and the copy. (http://richardharding.com.au/index.html, 2020)
Harding has been exhibiting for the past 25 years participating in solo and group exhibitions exhibitions in Australia and internationally. His work is held in public and private collections while exhibiting in various modes from public and commercial galleries, to artist run spaces and community-based environments. Harding has worked in industry-based print workshops, like the Australian Print Workshop inc. as a studio supervisor, a custom printer and access artist. He has been involved with the national print organisation; Print Council of Australia as a committee member, Vice President and is currently the Secretary of the governing body.
Harding completed a PhD by Project in 2014 titled, Juxtapose: an exploration of gay masculine identity and its relationship to the closet. The Project was triggered by the discovery of the term straight acting on the internet in the Noughties (2000 – 2009) and has been driven by the paradox that is created when gay and masculine are positioned together within the western patriarchal dominant society where heteronormative masculinity is positioned as alpha with all other forms of masculinity and performance situated beneath it. Printmaking plays a fundamental and interrogative role within this project through its facility of reproducibility and thus production of multiples while the term straight acting activates the print-based preoccupation of the real and unreal, the authentic and replica with the original and the copy. (http://richardharding.com.au/index.html, 2020)
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