Haggarty’s paintings, which collage oil stick, airbrush and acrylic paint present an honest and fractured view into the artist’s domestic space. Scenes in this work are often using a bedroom as a location; but weave in the timely intimacy of the last two years in living alone and in company, with and without pets, with grief, and with art. The invitation into the most private of spaces is direct and personal; subject matter freely enters the bedroom and its dream space. Haggarty welcomes this fluidity and references art history, intimacy and its psychology in both clear and obscure ways.
The artist’s use of diverging perspectives and light sources is a narrative tool: it invites a productive confusion and asks the viewer to suspend their disbelief.
The hand in each of the paintings is on full display: the materials bring life to the images and invite the process of the work to be a part of its destination. The artist’s relationship with drawing is evident in all of the works, and the drawings on view in the show function as a central anchor of the exhibition.
