Ep 65: Nicholas Harding




Talking with Painters show

Summary: Nicholas Harding is one of Australia's most celebrated artists. He has been awarded the Archibald prize, the Archibald People's Choice award, the Kilgour prize and the Dobell drawing prize amongst others. His work crosses portraiture, landscape and still life.<br> Harding's oil paintings are created with a glorious impasto technique, he uses gouache to capture the lifesize portraits of many a famous sitter and he is renowned for his magnificent ink drawings.<br> <br> He has had over 30 (often sell-out) solo shows, major survey shows of his work have been held at the S H Ervin Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery and his work is in the collections of many public institutions including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Portrait Gallery, and in private and corporate collections around the world.<br> <br> One of the major impacts on his work was coming to Australia after spending the first 8 years of his life in England and, in particular, his observation of the different light and how its glare created contrasts which were so different to the muted tones of England.  It was his time in the bush and the beaches as a child which caused him later to move further from the English influence to make Australia the subject of his work.<br> <br> In this episode we talk about his influences, painting from memory, the strengths and weaknesses of using photographic references, failing in order to succeed, making art during the dark times and much more. To hear the episode press 'play' under the feature photo above or listen however you get your podcasts.<br> <br> See short video of Harding in his studio below.<br> Current Upcoming shows<br> <br> * Destination Sydney Re-Imagined (together with work by Wendy Sharpe and Jeffrey Smart)  at<a href="https://www.shervingallery.com.au/current-exhibition/"> S H Ervin Gallery </a>until 17 March 2019<br> * Solo show at <a href="https://www.philipbacongalleries.com.au/">Philip Bacon Galleries,</a> Brisbane, 20 August - 14 September 2019<br> <br> Show Notes<br> <br> * <a href="http://www.nicholasharding.com.au/">Nicholas Harding</a><br> * <a href="https://www.instagram.com/nicholas0harding/?hl=en">Nicholas Harding on Instagram</a><br> * <a href="https://www.olsengallery.com/available.php?artist_id=431">Nicholas Harding at Olsen Gallery</a><br> * <a href="https://www.philipbacongalleries.com.au/artists_and_stockroom?id=452554">Nicholas Harding at Philip Bacon Galleries</a><br> * <a href="https://sophiegannongallery.com.au/artists/nicholas-harding-178">Nicholas Harding at Sophie Gannon Gallery</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_Beauvoir">Simone de Beauvoir</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori">Memento mori</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning">Willem De Kooning</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko">Mark Rothko</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hodgkin">Howard Hodgkin</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner">JMW Turner</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec">Henri de Toulouse Lautrec</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Drysdale">Russell Drysdale</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Whiteley">Brett Whiteley</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Rees">Lloyd Rees</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Boyd">Arthur Boyd</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Nolan">Sidney Nolan</a><br> * <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon">Francis Bacon</a><br> * <a href="http://chuckclose.com/">Chuck Close</a><br> * <a href="https://en."></a>