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Harrison Armstrong: Pigs and Whistles

Past exhibition
11 November 2024 - 31 March 2025
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Harrison Armstrong Don't Let the Ducks Eat Dad, 2023 Oil on Canvas 160 x 250 cm
Harrison Armstrong
Don't Let the Ducks Eat Dad, 2023
Oil on Canvas
160 x 250 cm
"I want my paintings to project a positive acceptance of uncertainty and an awareness of the inevitable intervention of chance."

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Ministry of Nomads is pleased to present Pigs and Whistles, an online exclusive show of new works by Harrison Armstrong (b.1999). Armstrong is a talented young painter based in London. He graduated from the Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (HONS) in Painting, with his degree show work selected for the annual New Contemporaries exhibition held at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

 

He was also awarded the John Kinross scholarship to facilitate a period of practical study in Florence, Italy. In 2023 he was awarded another travel grant by the Goldsmiths Company. Armstrong drove across the American Midwest from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, exploring the small towns and vastness of rural America, making drawings the whole time which would inform these very paintings.

 

"By making drawings, and then oil painting on a large scale, I can articulate an inner adversity that I have been less able to describe in reality. I am realising that my painting is more than a representation of an internal or external world: it grants me authority over a desertion of meaning - a space to feel a sense of control over the indescribable."

 

"The work contextually and thematically explores control. Despite a physical authority over the materials, I still feel a tonal uncertainty within my paintings - the motifs, cynicism, and ambiguous visual narratives represent both the desertion of, and attempt to assert, control. By allowing access to my own interiority, my intention is to comfort rather than isolate the viewer. I want my paintings to project a positive acceptance of uncertainty and an awareness of the inevitable intervention of chance."

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Artworks
  • Harrison Armstrong Shiny Shoes, 2024 Oil on linen 100 x 150 cm
    Harrison Armstrong
    Shiny Shoes, 2024
    Oil on linen
    100 x 150 cm
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  • Harrison Armstrong Don't Let the Ducks Eat Dad, 2023 Oil on Canvas 160 x 250 cm
    Harrison Armstrong
    Don't Let the Ducks Eat Dad, 2023
    Oil on Canvas
    160 x 250 cm
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  • Harrison Armstrong Hunting by the Sea, Through the Streets, Every Corner, 2023 Oil on Canvas 190 x 160 cm
    Harrison Armstrong
    Hunting by the Sea, Through the Streets, Every Corner, 2023
    Oil on Canvas
    190 x 160 cm
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  • Harrison Armstrong Last Time to Make Plans (Don't You Miss It), 2023 Oil on Canvas 160 x 240 cm
    Harrison Armstrong
    Last Time to Make Plans (Don't You Miss It), 2023
    Oil on Canvas
    160 x 240 cm
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  • Harrison Armstrong Take a Look at These Hands, the Hand Speaks, the Hand of The Government Man, 2023 Oil on Canvas 160 x 240 cm
    Harrison Armstrong
    Take a Look at These Hands, the Hand Speaks, the Hand of The Government Man, 2023
    Oil on Canvas
    160 x 240 cm
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  • Harrison Armstrong Don't You Miss It, Some of You People Just About Missed It, 2023 Oil on Canvas 160 x 160 cm
    Harrison Armstrong
    Don't You Miss It, Some of You People Just About Missed It, 2023
    Oil on Canvas
    160 x 160 cm
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  • A Minute with Harrison Armstrong Videos

    A Minute with Harrison Armstrong

    Harrison Armstrong discusses his new works and creative process. Feb 1, 2025
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