Tim Hardy

Tim Hardy (b. 1999, Canberra, Australia) is an artist interested in visual seduction and artifice. Working across photography and video, Hardy manufactures and documents various ’situations’. These formal compositions blur the line between commercial and fine-art image dispositions and function as isolated scenes from a larger narrative left unsaid. Through the careful staging of chosen subjects and environments, Hardy re-examines the underlying psychological tensions beneath everyday objects and scenes, such as commercial advertorial photography, group dynamics, mistakes and repetitions, athleticism and performance. By subjecting the familiar to subtle acts of perversion, Hardy draws the eye towards moments of overlooked beauty, tension or depravity.