Brent Harris
Addressing the experience of the body and desire, faith (and the question of what follows death), and childhood memories of porous familial relationships, Harris’ ambiguous forms derive from his use of the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing to access unconscious imagery. Working concurrently across painting, printmaking and drawing, Harris has developed a generative methodology, where each medium feeds the development of his art in unexpected ways.
Excerpt from exhibition text, Surrender and Catch, Art Gallery of South Australia and Tarrawarra Museum of Art, 2024
Exhibitions
Brent Harris
Drawings and New Paintings
“These new works present a layering of motifs that have populated my compositions for some decades, stimulating configurations that reveal new meanings for both myself and the viewer,” says Harris. Brent Harris’ minimal-line paintings present as lucid dreamscapes, incorporating both abstract and figurative elements to surreal and disquieting ends. Igniting the imagination with their playful […]
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Brent Harris
The Stations
On display in Gallery 2, the exhibition focus is the set of 14 etchings Harris made in 2021 in response to the Christian devotional practice – and associated series of 14 images – known as the Stations of the Cross. Printed and editioned at Viridian Press in Benalla, Victoria, by John Loane, THE STATIONS 2021 is […]
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Brent Harris
Monkey Business
Painting can be a forcefield, a place with edges, finitude—even if what plays out within its borders is a kind of absurd, stuttering chaos. For Brent Harris, painting is a place to frame and momentarily circumscribe shifting psychological states and philosophical questions that threaten to overwhelm us at times. This is why their forms are […]
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