Kirsty Harris Artist / London, England, UK

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K i R S T Y H A R R I S

SAATCHI GALLERY

BEYOND THE GAZE - RECLAIMING THE LANDSCAPE

14TH JULY - 23RD SEPTEMBER 2023
FAD REVIEW BY DR. DANIEL BARNES

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THAT LETHAL CLOUD - SOLO EXHIBITION - STUDIO KIND
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION HERE

A painting of firey looking palm trees. made in bleach on black fabric, they are swaying against the blast of an invisible nuclear explosion. The bleach painted areas are a firey pinky, yellowey orange and quite painterly.

A large painting on linen, with orangey pink colours and a dark foreboding grey cloud from an atom bomb test. In the background are the hills in the Nevada dessert in a purpley colour.

A monotone image of an oil painting on glass of an atomic explosion in the nevada desert. Close up and delicately painted with a dark wooden frame. Size 10 x 8 inches in real life. Painted by Kirsty Harris.

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An image of Kirsty Harris's massive painting of a nuclear test in the Nevada dessert. The sky is a rich greeny blue and the explosion hangs in the air bright white.

A monotone image of an oil painting on glass of an atomic explosion in the nevada desert. Close up and delicately painted with a dark wooden frame. Size 10 x 8 inches in real life. Painted by Kirsty Harris.

An image of a risograph printed poster in red ink, the text on top looks like a neon sign and the background is a painting of a white atomic explosion in the Nevada desert.

A small ceramic sculpture of a sandbag that loks like it is crawling along the floor.

An image of a large oil painting of a nuclear test called Buster Jangle easy, detonated in the Nevada Dessert by the U.S. military. [ainting measures 60 by 50 inches in real life.

A painting of China's first hydrogen bomb test titled Test Number 6. detonated in the Lop Nur desert.

An art work made by painting bleach onto grey paper. It depicts a house that seems to be on fire. The house was tested on by the Chinese goverment to see how it would fare after being blasted by an atomic bomb. The marks are light, vibrant and expressive. Painted by artist Kirsty Harris. Click links to more images from the solo Exhibition at Manchester's CFCCA institution.

A photographic image of a police horse against the wire [erimeter fence at Greenham Common. on the fence is a CND sign that has been woven in by the Greenham women who camped there for many years. In the background is a blurry policeman with folded arms.

List of Works

An installation image of an exhibition called "Who wants flowers when we're dead?" it depicts a large window with the vinyl text "IT" and in the corner sits a screen playing Artist Lizz Brady's video piece. Kirsty's artwork "The Apple" is a stack of A4 paper printed with instructions to eat the apple which sits on top. A lightbulb on a long cable hags low and directly above it illuminating the work. It references J. R. Oppenheimer's attempt to poison his tutor at Cambridge university.

An image of a window that has been whitewashed and then th word HELP has been scratched out of the paint. You could see throught the the lettering to the exhibition inside.

a charcoal drawing of a palm tree that was originally blasted on the paradisic Marshall Islands by the U.S. military in 1946.

An image of a close up of a typewriter that has typed Good evening Kevin Clarke. I wondered if. This links to a page for the artists Harris and Clarke who collaborate on performance art events.

a painting by artist Kirsty Harris. I depicts a plane within a cloudy looking atmosphere. It is actually on a dessert floor in China and is being tested on to see how it survived after being blasted with a nuclear test. The sky is a deep bluey green colour with a sandy floor. The plane is empty and is a browny colour with a bright red nose.

An image of a artwork by Kirsty Harrs. In it a woman is kneeling down on all fours and an accordian is consuming her head. Printed in black and white. From the popular series, Death By Instruments.

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