Andrew Hardy

(b 1967, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Andrew Hardy uses abstraction to work through broader questions of materiality; repetition; gesture and chance. When painting; he connects with his materials; tools and surfaces in different ways. The emphasis is on 'painting as object' rather than any recognisable image or narrative. Most of his work refers only to itself; to nothing but its own making. The emphasis is on form; materials and processes. The paintings are their own subject.