D Harding Places 2025
Behind the scenes of the MAMA Albury commission
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D Harding Places 2025Behind the scenes of the MAMA Albury commission
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D Harding, Places ii, installation view,
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2025
2025, Earth pigments and acrylic on linen. Two panels: Walla Walla soil and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx Iron oxide and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx.
Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery.
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
D Harding, Places i, installation view,
Murray Art Museum Albury, 2025
Earth pigments and acrylic on linen. Three panels: Wonga soil and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx. Milawa Bila sediments and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx. Mungabareena soil and acrylic binder, 282 x 232 cm approx.
Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery.
Photo Jeremy Weihrauch
View of exhibition opening event, 22nd August 2025, MAMA, Albury Bungabrawatha
Aunty Edna Stewart offering a Welcome to Country to the exhibition opening event on behalf of the Dyiraamalang Girbang Advisory Committee to Murray Art Museum Albury, 22nd August 2025, Albury Bungabrawatha.
The collected soils and sediments were uses as pigments on linen that speak to specific local places on Wiradjuri Country near Bungambrawatha / Albury in Winter 2025.
Wonga soil collected by Aunty Liz Heta and Aunty Glennys Briggs.
Photos Jeremy Weihrauch, MAMA Albury.
Mungabareena soil collection supported by Aunty Edna Stewart, Uncle Noel Stewart, Aunty Muriel Williams, Aunty Ruth Davys, Aunty Glennys Briggs, Mark Dodd, Andrea Briggs, and Keanau Wighton
Photos Jeremy Weihrauch, MAMA Albury.
Milawa Bila sediments collected by Aunty Liz Heta and Aunty Glennys Briggs.
Photos Jeremy Weihrauch, MAMA Albury.
Walla Walla soil collected by Aunty Edna Stewart, Uncle Noel Stewart and Andrea Briggs.
Photos Jeremy Weihrauch, MAMA Albury.
D Harding, Places, 2025. Install views of vitrine containing soil and sediment remnants from the artwork process
Photos Jeremy Weihrauch, MAMA Albury.
Views of the working processes, 2025.
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Views of the working processes, 2025.
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Soil and sediments from Wonga and Milawa Bila shown here being worked further into linen bedsheets by hand.
Views of the working processes, 2025.
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Views of the working processes, 2025
Photo Glennys Briggs
Four of the total seven linen bedsheets show here. Some had been coloured and fixed with local soils and pigments from Wiradjury Country, and some had been coloured and fixed with synthetic red iron oxides. I chose to use only store bought iron oxides to pigment the three linen bedsheets that were coloured at my studio in France. The synthetic red iron oxide pigment gives a consistent and uniform red colour. The local soils and sediments are varied and unique to each location.
Views of the working processes, 2025
Photo Glennys Briggs
Working with Aunty Glennys and Uncle Ian at Michael’s house. Here, the properties of the different soils and pigments were more distinct and obvious after they had been applied as artwork pigments. The inherent colours and mineral compositions of the natural soils and sediments became accentuated on white linen and viewed in relation to one another.
Views of the working processes, 2025.
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Views of the working processes, 2025.
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D Harding, Notebook scans, 2025
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D Harding, Notebook scans, 2025
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