Wendy Hardie

Collaborating Artist

Wendy Hardie has collaborated with Landolt + Brown’s architecture studio since early 2013.  As either artist or designer, or both, she has worked on multi award winning projects, buildings, interiors, public realm, pop-up, landscape and public art and cultural trail projects in some of London’s most creative quarters, Peckham, Hackney Wick, Tottenham and Whitechapel, alongside her own art practice of installation, sculpture and experimental photography. Trained as an architect at Edinburgh University and East London Polytechnic, during her degree and diploma studies Hardie developed a deeper, enduring interest in the connections and overlaps between architecture, art and landscape. Since then she has explored and developed built form as metaphorical language for the psychological, physical and memory based nature of structures and space.  She has particularly focused on the ability of architectural forms to act as metaphors to absorb and articulate cultural or private narratives, with poetic and emotional content capable of operating within and across layers of meaning.  From her diploma studies onwards research and photography have been essential structural and creative threads in her practice.

Prior to collaborating with L+B’s studio most of Hardie’s work was in the form of temporary interventions that sat between disciplines.  She worked for 15 years in the crossover between architecture, art, design and events. She was at the forefront of the development of temporary `pop up’ structures in the UK with her work from 1992-96 with the Edinburgh International Film Festival, where she instigated and created a strand of large scale urban and interior installations and Son et Lumière events (real and proposed for the millenium) in the heart of Edinburgh’s city centre.  In addition to private project commissions in art, design, architecture and landscape she has been commissioned to design outdoor urban projection events and installations for Scotland’s Unique Events, UZ Events, RAW/Glasgow Art Fair, roundabout landscape proposals in Glasgow for Visual Art Projects and interactive environmental design installations for London’s Affordable Art Fair.