Andrew Pierre Hart’s He So Blue reflects the artist’s exploration of the connections between sound and painting. Drawing from his background as a DJ and founder of the electronic music label Deepart, Hart integrates musical techniques like improvisation and ‘rhythmic research’ into his multidisciplinary practice. He So Blue was part of Hart’s 2024 Whitechapel Gallery commission, ‘Bio-Data Flows & Other Rhythms – A Local Story’. The painting combines Hart's signature geometric patterns with art-historical influences, engaging with the nighttime cultures and rhythms of Whitechapel.
Artist portrait. Courtesy of the artist, Christina Holke
Andrew Pierre Hart (lives and works in London, UK) graduated with an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2019 and a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts, London in 2017. He is an Associate Lecturer for MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and University of the Arts London, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts and Goldsmiths University, London. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Bio-Data Flows and Other Rhythms – A Local Story’, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2024); ‘Accordion Fields’, Lisson Gallery, London (2024); ‘The Listening Sweet II Ghana’, Gallery 1957, Accra (2024); ‘Keeping Time’, Gallery 1957, Accra (2024); ‘Last Night of the Stone Age Sessions’, Tommy Simoens, Antwerp (2023/2024); ‘Invention of a Graphic Score’, Asia Art Centre, Taipei (2023); ‘The Listening Sweet – 3 – Lagos’, Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos (2023); ‘Andrew Pierre Hart & Alexandria Smith: When Cosmologies Meet’, Tiwani Contemporary, London (2022). He has received several awards, including the Artangel ‘Thinking Time’ Award (2020) and the Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2019).
Provenance
Donated by the artist
Exhibited
London, Whitechapel Gallery, Andrew Pierre Hart: Bio-Data Flows and Other Rhythms – A Local Story, 15 February–7 July 2024