When The Smoke Clears showcases works influenced by Haddon's research into the life of the master mariner, whaler, and harbour master, James Kelly (1791 – 1851).
The works reflect on Haddon's own experience of migration, and how his story intertwines with community histories. Haddon brings his personal experiences together with his unique artistic production, conjuring a distinctive way of working, the very nature of which is transitory, moving, and unfixed.
Neil Haddon is a British Australian artist who has lived in Tasmania since 1996. Before emigrating to Hobart, Haddon lived and worked in Barcelona, Spain, for six years, showing regularly with Galeria Carles Poy.
Haddon's recent work draws on his experience of migration and how a migratory way of working can be applied to creative practice. He uses a 'migratory aesthetics' of displacement (a collage-like approach to painting) to reconfigure and combine imagery from his own biography with that of Tasmania's fraught colonial history, amongst other subjects. He is known for his use of a wide range of styles from hard-edge geometric abstraction to looser, expressive figuration.
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