Peter Hardy’s art practice is multi-disciplined embracing both two and three dimensional works. His paintings, drawings and collages explore an asemic approach to calligraphy and mark making which often references meditation and zen. He also acknowledges the influence of such artists as Mark Toby, Pierre Alechinsky, Robert Rauschenberg and Antoni Tapies, and more recently Henri Michaux and Cy Twombly.

His canvas and paper works offer a hybrid art form that fuses and unifies text and image before releasing it for free subjective interpretation. His quasi-calligraphic mark making touches on Hardy’s inner journeying, mindful of the present moment. The artworks are  layered with personal symbols and text, yet the open nature of the content allows for meaning to occur across and beyond linguistic understanding.

Hardy’s sculpture, assemblage and installations are comprised of found objects re-cycled,  repurposed and re-contextualised into new existing entities. They are anarchic in the sense that the disparate elements change from their original meaning to make creative and/or surprising connections. A sense of play can often underpin his art making process, unfettered by prescriptive thinking and overt narrative, the artworks arise spontaneously and somewhat bizarrely into existence.