Graphic work

George Hardie

25/03/93. (Sala 148)

On Thursday, March 25, at eight o’clock in the evening, will be inaugurated in La Sala Vinçon the exhibition of the English illustrator GEORGE HARDIE entitled “Graphic work”. This exhibition is part of the Primavera del Disseny. Opened until April 24.

George Hardie is an active designer and illustrator who has combined his professional work with teaching.

Hardie studied graphic design at St. Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art and has since become an excellent illustrator, with a special ability to creatively resolve formal difficulties.

Georges Hardie’s technique and style is obstinately foreign to the gestural fact and is based on elaborate ideas that will later be scrupulously composed and materialized in works of graphic art. The techniques he uses are very diverse and range from collage to pencil, airbrush and pen. But despite this technical diversity, most of Hardie’s work responds to a similar spatial approach: the aerial point of view. This is one of the aesthetic constants of his work, which gives it an indisputable personality.

Another idea that is repeated in Hardie’s work is the approach to graphics as a slow development process that does not require an immediate reading. He has been awarded D&AD silver medals in 1972, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1986. He has been special mention to Mecanorma 1982 and 1983 for his work done in Vinçon together with other designers.

In Barcelona, we could admire some of his works in the Fundació Miró in the exhibition “Homage to Tintin”.In 1993, before coming to La Sala Vinçon, he had solo exhibitions at the University of Brighton Gallery and the Howars Garden Gallery Cardiff.