Talk | In Conversation: Haroun Hayward and Miriam OConnor Perks

Organised by : Pallant House Gallery

Join artist Haroun Hayward and curator Miriam OConnor Perks as they discuss Haywards 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 Haywards 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 mothers 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, Haywards 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.