Clashing Memories

Toni Harrower

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Toni Harrower’s work is beset with mathematical experiments in colour, composition, and scale. But this is just the foundation; within her systematic restraints and rules, the physicality of paint is allowed to gloriously resurface. Colours merge, layers build up, and Harrower’s initial grid plans are both rescinded and accentuated. The passing of time seems to become a creative form of its own – a process tangentially informed by Harrower’s research into dementia and memory deterioration. Hardened textures and jutted forms make up the works, where crusted oils and geometric patterns take the paintings into sculptural terrain. Similar visually to the endlessly layered work of contemporary American artist Mark Bradford, Harrower paints abstractions with complexity in mind.