Offcuts
By: Patrick Hartigan
Publisher: Gazebo Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Summer Hill, New South Wales
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780987619150
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Family; Painters; Anecdotes; Biography; Reminiscing; Families
Description: Artist Patrick Hartigan recalls the weeks leading to his father's death and his daughter's birth. The people he meets, the places he visits, even the objects he touches for a moment, take on a radiance usually seen in artworks we admire. Part visual memoir, part meditation on the colours and contours of life's events, Offcuts reveals the substance of seemingly mundane moments. With stylistic precision and unreserved sincerity, Hartigan has created a work of art akin to Knausgaard's My Struggle, with the difference that he has distilled his raw material.