A NEW exhibition of art by Tim Harrold opened on 15 May at Well House Gallery in Horndon on the Hill. Tim is based at High Artists’ Studios in Purfleet and lives in Grays.
Tim’s main medium is ‘assemblage’ using found objects put together in small sculptures or boxes. "I like boxes because they’re like miniature theatres," explains Tim, "and you can invite people into new and unexpected worlds."
On display are also a selection of photographs taken around Thurrock and beyond, and some recent montages using maps from an old atlas. There’s also an installation using three white featureless mannequin torsos, each with a coloured triangular symbol on their chest, representing the Trinity. "It’s called ‘A Homage to Andrei Rublev’ because he was the greatest of the medieval Russian icon painters, and his most famous icon was called ‘The Trinity’".
The title of the show comes from the word ‘Perceptualism’, which Tim says is "the place where the conceptual and the metaphysical meet – ‘The Perceptualist Eye’ is therefore about a way of seeing, a worldview, a certain perspective. All of my assemblages are like visual parables – they are stories with meanings that work on a number of levels."
Tim often incorporates words in the images he creates, reflecting his loves of graphic design and writing, especially ‘found poetry’.
The art show ends on 10 June. Work is for sale.
