Lydia Hardwick
Lydia Hardwick uses ceramic materials to create animals which interact with banal human domestic and industrial surfaces. She presents situations that are simultaniously tragic and humorous, using the animals to comment on aspects of human nature, inadvertently allowing us to laugh at ourselves.
Her current work comments on the forcefulness or naivety of working as a mass group or community. In ‘Birds of a Feather Flop Together’ she has shown a flock of birds, attempting to reach worms, but failing. They have chosen to work as a group, but acting together has not brought about the desired results, as one foolishly just follows after another.
There are certainly undercurrents of ecological issues raised in her work. ‘Birds of a Feather Flop Together’ shows the birds unable to reach their food (to perform their natural function) due to restrictions created by very man made materials. The Revenge depicts small chickens taking over a microwave as if it were a mountain, therefore conquering an item that would, more likely, cook them into a meal for humans.
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Birds of a Feather Flop Together
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Birds of a Feather Flop Together (detail)
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Birds of a Feather Flop Together (detail)
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The Revenge
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The Revenge (detail)
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The Revenge (detail)
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Bin Bird
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