Mr Richard Harding
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Studio Coordinator, Printmaking |
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Art |
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+(61 3) 9925 1035 |
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Building: 49 |
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Image Caption
Richard Harding
Invisible Man, 2009
digital inkjet and screen print installation; 25 x 35 cm
Key Activities
Born in Perth, Western Australia in1959.
Richard Harding is a print based artist and Senior Lecturer in the Printmaking Studio at the School of Art, RMIT University Melbourne Australia. Harding’s visual research is informed by architectural and queer theory utilizing print media, traditional and electronic, as a vehicle for an ongoing art practice. He has produced two-dimensional, installation, video and object based works.
Richard Harding has been exhibiting for the past 20 years in Australia and internationally, with solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Perth and participated in over 50 group exhibitions. His work is held in public and private collections in Australia; while exhibiting in various modes from public and commercial galleries, to artist run spaces and community-based environments. Harding has worked in industry based print workshops, like the Australian Print Workshop inc. as a studio supervisor, a custom printer and access artist. He has been involved with the national print organization; the Print Council of Australia as a committee member, Vice President and is currently a member. Presently Richard Harding is the Printmaking Studio Coordinator, member of the School of Art Galleries Advisory Committee and TAFE Visual Art Program Advisory Committee.
Qualifications
BA Fine Art 1979; Grad Dipl Art Education 1982; MA Fine Art 1995; Dip Electronic Design and Interactive Media 2003; currently undertaking a PhD by Project
Research
Richard Harding’s research interests are focused on the use of architectural metaphor to discuss sexual orientation, masculinity and codes of representation. Within a contemporary print based art practice Harding is exploring printmaking’s intrinsic qualities of sameness and difference with the merging of traditional and contemporary print mediums.
Currently undertaking a PhD by project titled, Juxtapose:an exploration of gay masculine identity and its relationship to the closet. A key concern informing this study is the question: how can homosexual males present as a sexual other within a heteronormative culture, while maintaining a masculine identity? This conundrum activates the binary of hetero/homo in a historic translation of masculine/feminine, leading to conflicts of interior and exterior.
School of Art Research Cluster
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