Coral Harding
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.