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    Installation shot of artwork, cloves, terracotta earthenware clay under radiator in studio.
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    Redolence, Coral Harding, 2023, cloves, terracotta earthenware clay, 163 x 54 x 2.5 cm

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    Detail of installation shot of artwork, cloves, terracotta earthenware clay under radiator in studio.
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    Redolence (detail), Coral Harding, 2023, cloves, terracotta earthenware clay, 163 x 54 x 2.5 cm

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    Open studio window with willow branches and pinewood, spilling in.
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    To Dwell Beneath, Coral Harding, 2022, willow branches, pinewood, 110 x 120 x 15 cm

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    Painting of wooden panel.
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    Of the Wind, Coral Harding, 2023, earth pigment in oil on wood, steel. 22.7 x 14.6 x 2.4 cm

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    Corner of studio, paint stripped wooden floorboards oiled with clove oil, ground cloves pressed into the floorboard gaps, white wall paint, plywood wall.
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    The Hollow, Coral Harding, 2024, paint stripped wooden floorboards oiled with clove oil, ground cloves pressed into the floorboard gaps, white wall paint, plywood wall, 224 x 92 x 120 cm

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Coral Harding – BA/BFA

My work explores the sensuality of memory, tradition and cultural experience in the forms of site-specific sculpture, drawing and painting. Employing materials used within ritual and commemoration, including cloves, willow branches and intricate metal objects I communicate the sensitivity and vulnerability of these materials through my presentation of their exposed and overwhelming sensory potential and tactility. Working with existing architectural features in the spaces within which I show my work, I highlight specific structural details through my utilisation of the sensory. I explore the emotionally penetrative and reminiscent nature of smell and its ability to destabilise spatial boundaries. A lyricism between compression and diffusion, containment and expansion, architecture and atmosphere.