Harley created a wallpaper painting for the room at MIRKA. His practice bridges the gap between traditional painting techniques and the vast possibilities that new technology offers art. His practice also involves moving images and musical collaborations with composer/musician Andrew Blackburn and the Melbourne Chorale. In this exhibition, Harley created a new work that responded to the Mirka space and extended his interest in illusionistic abstraction. We often think of digital work as brittle or pixilated, or in other words, lacking in sensuality and organic lushness, but David Harley’s works challenged that assumption with paintings that reassert flow and form. For the Mirka room David created a floor to ceiling corner piece that delivered depth and a kind of visual musicality… a festive, trippy painting that recalled the cool of expressionism and the hot moods of jazz music.
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1 December, What's on Victoria, David Harley
