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Luke Hardy
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Luke Hardy
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Location: Stanley Street Gallery, Stanley Street, Darlinghurst NSW, Australia
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In this, his third solo show with Stanley Street Gallery, the work of photo artist Luke Hardy wistfully explores past lives, the power of memory and the allure of renewal.

Hardy’s work brings together a variety of visual genres including the portrait, the still life and the shadow play, all in muted counterpoint, touching on themes of lost youth and reincarnation.

The lotus flower opens by day but submerges nocturnally into the waters from which it has grown, only to reappear the next day. In Hindu and Buddhist iconography, it is a symbol of resilience and rebirth.

A key image in this exhibition features a rendering of the Hindu god Vishnu, also known as Vishnu the Preserver or Restorer. He is traditionally depicted with a lotus in one of his hands as is the Buddha. Here, fragments of objects of veneration, broken and vandalized over time, are restored not in stone, gold or bronze, but as ghosts of the creatures that fashioned them.

Luke Hardy

Luke Hardy is a photographic artist who has spent a significant period of his adult life living in various Asian countries. Out of this experience he has built a body of essentially portrait-based work reflecting on Buddhist and Hindu ritual, often involving water and purification. More recent work contemplates altered states and the thin line between the spiritual and the sensual. His subjects tend to be meditative, half-awake, sometimes somnambulistic.

This event has concluded
Dates: -
Location: Stanley Street Gallery, Stanley Street, Darlinghurst NSW, Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee: Free
Genres: Fine-Art
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