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ARTIST NIKI HARE
‘’ Painting is just a language that I am more
comfortable with, it has an honesty, it is what it is. My work is very
unprocessed, direct, I don't see as I paint , just look at it sometime later,
then start again or leave it alone until another time. I work with layers,
building them up and scraping back, finding stuff I had forgotten about, the
painting starts to get interesting, to develop its own past. The word paintings
write themselves with no restraint, if I'm not sure I keep writing over, but
ultimately the words, however buried, have been said. ‘’
NIKI
HARE
A SMALL SCREAM
JUST BECAUSE
DONT LOOK THEN
SLOWLY
BLUE ABSTRACT
I AM NOT
DID YOU NOTICE
OVER UNDER
NEVER HIDE YOUR
EYES 2013
YELLOW GRASS 2003
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WHY DONT YOU WOKE
UP ( UNDERSTANDING )
COME BACK AGAIN
THURSDAY 2.20
THEN AGAIN
NOT YOUR
USUAL TOUR
LOST TRACK
WHAT NOW
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TALKING TO MYSELF
AGAIN ( WITHOUT )
HERE SHOPING
JUST WANDERING
SPLIT SHIFT
NIKI HARE STUDIO
NIKI HARE
Niki Hare is a diverse visual artist whose work revolves around
ideas of existence and vision. “I paint in order to stave off the nausea” she
says. The work dissects and explores the world she has suddenly found herself
in. There is a focus on detailing and observation. “The world is paused, broken
down into layers, shuffled, pushed back together and sent on its way. Nothing
is static, there is a sense of the temporary, imbalance, discomfort.”. From the
artist's eye everything is viewed from all angles, broken down into frames,
maps, diagrams, aerial views. There is a focus on both what is there, but also
the spaces between, what could be there. Combining murky observation with a
sense of painting from the inside out, these works act as portraits and an investigation
of the self.
A Tewkesbury resident for many years, Niki Hare has only started exhibiting
this year, already taking part in three shows in Bristol, as well as a video
and photography show in Cologne, Germany and is currently involved with
internet collage projects being shown in the USA. Her work uses a large range
of mediums from paint and collage through to photography and video.
