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As gallerist Andrew Jenson writes, Harrison’s is a thorough visceral enquiry , raking across the terrain of the body to expose, like the excruciatingly honest portraits of Francis Bacon, the imperfect maps of our emotional and psychological histories. This trenchant truthfulness is evident across the spectrum of his work plaster smoothed and sculpted over steel forms, wax clumped and molded, ink pulled and pooled over wood and, as seen for the first time in this exhibition, charcoal, inscribed, rubbed and drawn over pressed into the paper in a dramatic near obliteration of the face. As the medium takes over, concealing rather than revealing the primary information of the subject, we are left to excavate what we can, digging into a darkening here, a contour here, a perfectly depicted and unmasked ear there in an instinctive search for recognisability. I wanted to get away from the portrait as the final thing, says Harrison, so it was about looking at the face and deciding what to remove.
What is left is an extraordinarily concentrated focus on medium as subject as much as process, in which contemporary and historic ideals of beauty and the art of portraiture are sacrificed to the strong gestural employment of his chosen medium. Harrison is represented in private and public collections in New Zealand and Australia. Join us in the gallery workshop as we provide practical solutions for the framing, display, installation of works of art, and information on new exhibitions and events. City Art Depot has its origins in the early 1980s when founder and manager David Trerise was working in the commercial picture framing sector.
In liaising with professional conservators and artists he realised that many of the practices used in the commercial picture framing sector caused often irreparable damage to art works on paper and canvas. He began researching new standards of materials and processes used by museums and conservators to ensure works of art are protected from hazards such as moisture, dust, changes in temperature and humidity while also avoiding the risks inherent in inferior often acidic picture framing materials, irreversible techniques and overhandling. In 1989 David set up a picture framing workshop on the second floor of a tilt slab building in the historic suburb of Addington, Christchurch. Since then he has expanded the range of art services offered at City Art Depot to provide practical and aesthetically pleasing solutions for the framing, installation, transportation or storage of works of art and artefacts to ensure that they are displayed and protected to the best advantage and to the highest safety standards.
A large workshop and fully trained and experienced staff enable City Art Depot to make frames, crates and artists’ stretchers from raw timber through to the finished product. In taking over the lease of the ground floor in 2002 David has expanded the business again to include a showroom, storage room and a fine arts gallery representing artists working in a variety of media. Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, City Art Depot has remained true to its original philosophy of museum standard art care with a client base encompassing museums, galleries, institutions, corporate clients and private art owners. City Art has remained consistent in its approach to provide the highest and most aesthetically sympathetic standards of art care

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