Land scape CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW LandEscape meets Adrian Flaherty Lives and works in London, United Kingdom I am a Londoner, having lived here all my life and where I also studied Sculpture, completing my degree at UAL in 2016, with work interested in ideas related to the home. I worked across a variety of media on this course but since then I have been concentrating on paintings. I have always been interested in the use of Chance in art over the last century or so and I use various methods of painting and drawing to create chaotic effects on the canvases which I then try to reason with, bringing it together with more detailed work. I work in administration as well at the moment which also brings out this organising nature of mine. Having also studied Architecture I have an underlying interest in location discovering new places that are related to a wider idea of where I am from, and walking is central to the work of my recent paintings. After completing the series of bridges along the River Thames, up to the edge of London, I have been making paintings of cliffs and beaches along the West coast of England. This is meant to symbolise how both myself and the `Western’ world is constantly being unpredictability affected by the forces around it, as can be also seen in the nature of the landscape changing with coastal erosion, tides, winds, etc. The effect of climate change is only going to heighten the impact on people’s lives. @adrianfhomeworks An interview by Josh Ryder, curator Sculpture, that you received from the and Melissa C. Hilborn, curator Camberwell College, University of the Arts [email protected] London: how do these formative years influence your evolution as an artist? Hello Adrian and welcome toLandEscape. Adrian Flaherty: Although the course was called Before starting to elaborate about your Sculpture we were encouraged, on all courses artistic production and we would like to invite there, to experiment with different media. With our readers to visit https://www.adrianf-home- that in mind my flat became the sculpture, with works.com in order to get a wider idea about interventions, paintings, photography, your artistic production, and we would like to functional works and sculptures in response to start this interview with a couple of questions the various spaces and ideas of the home. Over about your background. You have a solid the course I also developed my interest in the formal training and you hold a BA of use of chance in art over the last hundred years