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Edward Harper explores the boundary between chaos and order. Having moved to London in 1994 this interest has become linked with the contradictions of a consumerist and post-modern environment. Order, pleasure, marketing, vandalism, meaning, society, commodity, and how this is interwoven into the fabric of a City.

In a consumerist society our refuse and its display define our boundaries. Living and working in East London, Edward Harper's boundaries are defined by the dereliction of post-indurtrial London. Graffiti tags and corporate logos fighting for supremacy; rubbish bagged up neatly the only hint of a metropolitan order.

His the latest series are feature night scenes of rubbish that has been put out for collection, or dumped, in various East London streets. These are then scanned into an illustration program and reduced into areas of flat colour, sampled from the scanned photo. When complete the images are printed on an Epson desktop printer, the resultant image, when scaled up, forming the basis of a new painting.

Edward harper will show at 97-99 in February 2000. This will be the first exhibition of his night paintings and the artist's first solo show. The exhibition forms part of Fresh paint, the Gallery's painting programme.

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97-99:

Contemporary

Art

Gallery

London

Image:

Gun Street