Nicholas Harding
A previous winner of the Archibald Prize and the Dobell Drawing Prize, Nicholas Harding has held numerous sell-out solo exhibitions throughout Australia.
He is known for his thickly layered impasto oil paintings, watercolours, and large-scale ink drawings. Working predominately in landscape painting, Harding is also an acclaimed portraiture artist. Taking inspiration from Australian flora and fauna, Harding’s works demonstrate a fascination with life and nature and his technical skill as a draughtsman and painter.
Harding has been included in major exhibitions at the National Trust’s S.H. Ervin Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His work is held in Australian collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery, and in private and corporate collections in Australia, Singapore, the UK and the USA.
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2022 WYNNE PRIZE WINNER: NICHOLAS HARDING
Sophie Gannon Gallery is delighted to announce that Nicholas Harding is the winner of the 2022 Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales with his landscape, Eora.
The Wynne Prize is awarded annually for 'the best landscape painting of Australian scenery in oils or watercolours or for the best example of figure sculpture by Australian artists’, and is announced alongside the Archibald Prize for 'best portrait' and the Sulman Prize for 'best subject painting, genre painting or mural project'.
NICHOLAS HARDING AT S.H. ERVIN GALLERY
Nicholas Harding’s Wilpena Pound and Eucalyptus (Sliding Rock), 2019–20, is included in Tree of Life: A Testament to Endurance, at S.H. Ervin Gallery in Sydney until 31 May 2021.
In his exhibition review in The Sydney Morning Herald, art critic John McDonald describes Harding's painting as the best by the artist he has seen in years: 'The colour is crisp – the palette knife has been used with the precision of a surgeon wielding a scalpel. This vast canvas is filled with light, the composition held together by the most intricate rhythms.'
Harding's next solo exhibition at the gallery will open in November 2021. To join our waiting list, please contact the gallery.
Image: Nicholas Harding, Wilpena Pound and Eucalyptus (Sliding Rock), 2019–20
NICHOLAS HARDING AT BENALLA ART GALLERY
Nicholas Harding's Beach life (red swimsuit and boogie board), 2006, is included in Re-gathering at Benalla Art Gallery. The exhibition features 20 RACV Collection works as well as Benalla Collection works.
Re-gathering is on display until 20 June 2021.
Harding's next solo exhibition at the gallery will open in November 2021. To join our waiting list, please contact the gallery.
Image: Nicholas Harding, Beach life (red swimsuit and boogie board), 2006
NICHOLAS HARDING AT MANLY ART GALLERY AND MUSEUM
Nicholas Harding's original sketchbooks and larger drawings are on display at Manly Art Gallery and Museum in Nicholas Harding: The Theatre Sketchbooks until 14 February 2021.
Granted access to the rehearsal room to sketch the actors and creatives behind Waiting for Godot, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Present and The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Harding also created lively portraits of actors out of character, including Hugo Weaving, Richard Roxburgh and Philip Quast. Harding has also drawn some of Australia’s most renowned theatre directors and production creatives. These artworks are now a vibrant legacy of the Sydney Theatre Company’s recent productions.
Image: Nicholas Harding, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Hugo Weaving
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