Monday Post: Anne Hardy

Anne Hardy is British artist born 1970.  After graduating from Cheltenham School of Art with a BA in painting, she then went on to obtain an MA in photography from the Royal College of Art in 2000.  Hardy is currently living and working in London.  She is best known for her large-scale photographs of bizarre, seemingly existing spaces.  However, Hardy actually constructs each of her sets for her photographs, usually from junk found in markets.  According to Wikipedia, “Hardy puts these everyday objects together and transforms them into unusual, almost dreamlike environments which can be unnerving with their themes of abandonment and desolation.  The fabricated scenes of Hardy’s work reflect and comment on modern life in the western world, how people try to manipulate the space around them and how objects bought can too frequently be taken for granted or thrown away.”  The Saatchi Gallery, which represents Hardy states about her work:  “Strange, fantastical and a wee bit unsettling, Anne Hardy’s photographs invite glimpses into imaginary places, each suggesting fictions of a very surreal nature. . .  . her subjects suggest the not-quite-right ambience of madness or dreamscape; a sensation heightened through the unnatural intensity of artificial light.”  

Images:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/anne_hardy.htm

Gallery representing artist:

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/anne_hardy.htm

Interview:

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/worlds_of_interiors/