Talk | In Conversation: Haroun Hayward and Miriam O’Connor Perks
6–7pm
£18 (£16.20 For Friends and other concessions)
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Buy Tickets >Join artist Haroun Hayward and curator Miriam O’Connor Perks as they discuss Hayward’s practice and his new body of work which forms the exhibition Path through Trees (30 May – 1 November).
In this exhibition, Hayward has created a series of paintings responding to his joint residency with the Gallery and West Dean College, inspired by artists in the collection and the Sussex landscape.
Haroun Hayward’s vibrant practice celebrates hybridity, drawing upon a diverse array of influences from Modern British landscape painting and abstract expressionism, to dance music, rave culture and graffiti. His paintings lean towards abstraction, with shapes inspired by the rhythmic connections between sound, pattern and form, developed through a distinctive use of watercolour, oil paint and oil stick. His practice also takes inspiration from his mother’s expansive collection of South Asian and West African textiles, seen in the unique oil stick technique he has developed to emulate embroidery.
Inspired by the energy and rhythmic structures of acid house, hardcore and Detroit techno from the 1980s and 1990s, Hayward’s approach to landscape draws upon the processes of sampling, repetition and variation found in music production. With both art forms sharing a search for the transcendental, Hayward has developed a set of processes for handling each section of his works, allowing layers of technique and texture to coexist within a single piece.
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Haroun Hayward
Born in 1983, Haroun Hayward lives and works in London. He studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Brighton and completed an MA in Fine Art Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London, following an exchange year at the Nagoya University of Arts in Japan. Hayward has had solo exhibitions at Hales, London; Entractes23, Arles; indigo+madder, London; and Wellington Club, London.
Miriam O’Connor Perks
Miriam O’Connor Perks is Curator at Pallant House Gallery. She completed her Master’s in Art History and Museum Curating at the University of Sussex in 2018. She worked at Towner Eastbourne before joining Pallant House Gallery in 2021. She leads on artists’ commissions at the Gallery and has a particular interest in post-war and contemporary British art.
