Roger Hiorns explains his methods of exploration and excavation, and why he believes art is not so much about making objects as about designing behaviour
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151-189 Harper Road, London 3 September-2 November 2008
Harper Road is an unremarkable south London street, flanked by the blocks of large post-war housing estates, convenience...
... Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of all his possessions in ...
What would a monument to Britain in 2022 look like? A motley crew of artists provide some surprising answers
Goldsmiths CCA, London 21 January – 3 April 2022
by JOE LLOYD
It...
... Roger Hiorns are among the dozens of artists who have made new and ambitious works for the charitably funded organisation.
In July 2017, parliament’s landmark report C...
... art collection that is a focal point of the property. Works by Richard Phillips, Roger Hiorns, Tony Cragg and Brian Calvin, among others, populate the lobby and dining spa...
... where he died three years later at the age of 46.
Even by Artangel’s already grand standards – past endeavours include covering the interior of an empty council flat...
... is a space associated with DIY, storage and also a strange sanctum of leisure.
Other artists involved, including Keith Coventry, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Roger Hior...
... is hosting an exhibition dedicated to the history of making colour in western paintings, from the Middle Ages to the late 19th-century and beyond – a highlight is a frag...
... Design Centre clay concept car (2012) (looking like a large melting chocolate confection) stands next to the blue crystal magnificence that is Roger Hiorns’ Nunhead (200...
... of the Absence
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Aboriginal women as ambas...
... from a building site, are actually carefully sculpted recreations from the artist’s studio. Roger Hiorns’ crystalised cathedrals, at the other end of the same room, ho...
... for taking photographs, Shaw’s reworking of those scenes results in heightened reverie as well as heightened realism.
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The show's sensation piece has undoubt...
... the amazing Untitled (2009) by Roger Hiorns, a hanging engine block sprouting blue crystals; and cleverly there’s a photograph by Tacita Dean that Ballard himself wrote ...
... also commissioned a series of artists to produce work for this year's fair under the banner of 'Frieze Projects'. Three established British artists, Roger Hiorns, Cathy W...