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Brent Harris and Lara Strongman
Brent Harris To the River 2004 Lithograph. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū, gift of the artist, 2018
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Join New Zealand-Australian painting luminary Brent Harris and the Gallery’s former head curator Lara Strongman in conversation in the exhibition Brent Harris: Towards the Swamp.
In Harris’s painting the swamp—a gelatinous, dripping, bulbous, stretched suite of marks—references the human body, its forms, gestures, desires and secretions, and is complicated by the artist’s murky autobiographical overlays.
Related reading: Free event
Exhibition
Brent Harris: Towards the Swamp
6 November 2019 – 23 February 2020
Brent Harris explores uneasy psychological states in works that are both elegant and grotesque.
Notes
Brent Harris treats Christchurch to first solo exhibition
Celebrated artist Brent Harris will exhibit at Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū in November.
