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Alex Hartley |
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'Gnomic, 4C, 46ft * (Kilmuir)', C-type photograph, dimensions variable.
Courtesy: the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
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For part of a show I had at the Fruitmatket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2007 I made a tour of Scotland. As I traveled around I photographed, drew and climbed various seemingly random buildings in an attempt to work out my relationship with this very specific landscape. With the routes that I made and mapped through Scotland I sought to make connections between the way architecture is shaped by its landscape and is emblematic of its place.
The image 'Gnomic' shows me plastered onto a highland croft. |
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Born in 1963, Alex Hartley lives and works in London. Hartley has shown in both national and international exhibitions, with a major solo exhibition at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery in 2007 and Distrito Cuatro, Madrid in 2003. He has also exhibited in venues including the New Art Gallery Walsall; NaturalHistory Museum, London; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark;Museum of Contemporary Art, Sarajevo; Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany; and The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan amongst others. In 2005 he won the Linklaters Commission to create an installation for the new entrance to the Barbican Centre, London. During a year long sabbatical in Los Angeles, Alex Hartley climbed - unaided - many of LA's landmark architectural sites. His climbs were photographed and documented in LA Climbs: Alternative Uses for Architecture published in 2003. |
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