Deborah Harty

United Kingdom (residence) °1969
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Harty is currently a Lecturer in Drawing at Nottingham Trent University and is a practicing artist and researcher with a PhD in Drawing from Loughborough University. Deborah is a director of TRACEY, the online site for drawing and visualisation research. Alongside her drawing research practice Deborah Harty has collaborated with Phil Sawdon as one half of humhyphenhum, since 2005.

research

research expositions

  • The taste of tree? (2012) author(s): Deborah Harty, Phil Sawdon published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    The taste of a tree; the connection of [the] senses, the transference of sensations to smell a colour or hear a drawing… Walking around a tree, observing the colour, texture and outline, sitting to draw, to document the actualities of the object … this presents no interest … Walking around [the tree] observing the colour, texture, outline, breathing, mind and body absorbing tree, drawing through sensation the memory of the encounter … that presents the interest. The exposition considers whether the senses are connected and transferable in memory sufficiently to draw the taste of tree through the association of recalled sensations. Adopting Merleau-Ponty’s (2004, p.61) suggestion in The World of Perception, that, ‘[…] every quality is related to qualities associated with other senses. Honey is sugary. Yet sugariness in the realm of taste […] constitutes the same sticky presence as honey in the realm of touch.” humhyphenhum seek to uncover whether it is possible to draw the taste of tree through the association of recalled sensations; are the senses sufficiently connected to be transferable?
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