Uncultivated Land, which is continuing at Anima Mundi until 29th March, demonstrates Andrew Hardwick’s ongoing concern with, and depictions of, the contemporary landscape.
The exhibition is another chapter or ongoing documentation of his experience, locale, and our ongoing treatment of it.
Inspiration continues to be gathered from a specifically intimate and deep-rooted relationship with ‘place’, cultivated through a heritage where his family’s farm adjoined the Bristol Channel. First dissected by the building of the motorway and then again by expansion of the docks, most of what Hardwick grew up with has now gone. This story remains typical of all too many locations across the country and further afield, which continue to experience ongoing dramatic transition in the name of progress.
Andrew was born in Bristol in 1961, where he still resides on a smallholding near Royal Portbury Docks. He is an elected Academician at the Royal West of England Academy. Works have been exhibited extensively, including numerous public shows such as Earth Digging Deep in British Art, 1781-2022, alongside Lamorna Birch, William Blake, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, William Henry Hunt, Richard Long, John Martin, David Nash, John Nash, Paul Nash, Samuel Palmer, John Piper, Yinka Shonibare, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland and JMW Turner, among others. Works can be found in collections worldwide. Andrew is represented by Anima Mundi.
