Meet Harmanpreet Randhawa!
Harman is an artist working across sculpture, writing, drawing, installation and performance. Oscillating between the domestic and the sensual, their practice employs material-oriented and drawing-based approaches exploring the complexities of longing, belonging and desire through an autoethnographic lens. Below, Harman tells us a bit more about their time at Modern Art Oxford.
“Working as an artist outside of an art school has always seemed both daunting and exciting. This residency at MAO has allowed me to explore what artmaking outside of the art school can look like for me through critical introspection of the key themes in my work. Whether it be the changes in the pace at which I make new work or the different materials, my research and working methodologies now feel even more interested in the notions of change, transition, and longing.
So far, I have been addressing these concerns by looking back at my photo/material archives and undertaking experiments in collage-making and performance art to realise different approaches to making new work whilst also venturing into socially engaged making through upcoming workshops with my collaborator, friend and 2023 Platform Graduate Award Nominee, Sarah Catterall.”
Throughout their residency, Harman has performed DJ sets in our galleries, organised the Moments workshops with our Platform Graduate Artists and is running a series of research-sharing talks: Open Doors and Closed Windows.
Find Harman next in the gallery at our MAO Late on 19 October where they will present Open Doors and Closed Windows: The Void and the Fire. You can also take part in Unfolding Moments, a workshop created by Harman and the Platform Graduate Award artists. On Thursday 26 October, Harman will be hosting a collage making workshop in the galleries at 2pm.