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Noel Harding

Noel R. Harding was a Canadian contemporary artist. He produced sculptures, installations, video works, and public artworks during an artistic career that spanned over forty years. Harding taught in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Guelph between 1972 and 1979, and in the Department of Experimental Art at the Ontario College of Art between 1977 and 1982. From 1984 to 1995, he taught at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunst (AKI) in Enschede, The Netherlands and at the Dutch Art Institute (ArtEZ) in Enschede, in the International Post Graduate Program. Harding's work is included in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and the Canada Council Art Bank.
Creator Id: 259
Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Beginning Year: 1945
Country of Birth: England
Year of Birth: 1945
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Ending Year: 2016
Gender: Male
Living Status: Deceased
Mediums: commission, earthwork, installation, performance, sculpture, video
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Work by Noel Harding

Once Upon the Idea of Two, (detail)

Work ID: 5691

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Measurements: 762 x 299.72 x 269.24 cm

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Once Upon the Idea of Two, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5689

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Measurements: 762 x 299.72 x 269.24 cm

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Once Upon the Idea of Two, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5690

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Measurements: 762 x 299.72 x 269.24 cm

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Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form …, (view 2 of 4)

Work ID: 5699

Description: Full title: Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form / Flying Gliders and Walking in the Clouds. Commissioned for exhibition by the Harbourfront Art Gallery,Toronto, Ontario.

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Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form …, (view 4 of 4)

Work ID: 5701

Description: Full title: Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form / Flying Gliders and Walking in the Clouds. Commissioned for exhibition by the Harbourfront Art Gallery,Toronto, Ontario.

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Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form …, (view 3 of 4)

Work ID: 5700

Description: Full title: Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form / Flying Gliders and Walking in the Clouds. Commissioned for exhibition by the Harbourfront Art Gallery,Toronto, Ontario.

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Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form …, (view 1 of 4)

Work ID: 5698

Description: Full title: Complexity Can Create Simplicity of Form / Flying Gliders and Walking in the Clouds. Commissioned for exhibition by the Harbourfront Art Gallery,Toronto, Ontario.

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Enclosure for Conventional Habit, (view 3 of 3)

Work ID: 5708

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta.

Measurements: variables, approximately: 500.38 x 1198.88 cm; 1270 x 3048 cm

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Enclosure for Conventional Habit, (view 1 of 3)

Work ID: 5706

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta.

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Enclosure for Conventional Habit, (view 2 of 3)

Work ID: 5707

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta.

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Monument to an Even Account of History, (view 1 of 3)

Work ID: 5714

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

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Monument to an Even Account of History, (view 3 of 3)

Work ID: 5716

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

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Monument to an Even Account of History, (view 2 of 3)

Work ID: 5715

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

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Blue Peter

Work ID: 5723

Measurements: platform: 419.1 x 609.6 cm

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Blue Peter Steps Out to Remember

Work ID: 5724

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by Georgia State University, U.S.A.

Measurements: pond areas: 241.3 x 609.6 cm

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 3 of 7)

Work ID: 5729

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…

Work ID: 5726

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 7 of 7)

Work ID: 5733

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 6 of 7)

Work ID: 5732

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 1 of 7)

Work ID: 5727

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 4 of 7)

Work ID: 5730

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 2 of 7)

Work ID: 5728

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS…, (detail 5 of 7)

Work ID: 5731

Description: Full title: CARROTS, RABBITS, ELEPHANTS / A Silent Place for a Chair to Fall Over. Commissioned for Holland Festival, Amsterdam, The Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

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Blue Peter as a Bronze Water Fountain

Work ID: 5725

Description: Commissioned for exhibition by Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield, England.

Measurements: 241.3 x 180.34 cm

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Study of Man with Disease, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5734

Description: Commissioned by Artspace, Peterborough through the Canada Council, Ottawa and the Music Gallery, Toronto.

Measurements: figure size: 224.79 cm

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Study of Man with Disease, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5735

Description: Commissioned by Artspace, Peterborough through the Canada Council, Ottawa and the Music Gallery, Toronto.

Measurements: figure size: 224.79 cm

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The Automatic Theatre

Work ID: 5743

Measurements: 919.48 x 398.78 x 274.32 cm

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Shoe, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5742

Measurements: 419.1 x 180.34 x 119.38 cm

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Shoe, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5741

Measurements: 419.1 x 180.34 x 119.38 cm

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Physics (Anton’s chair)

Work ID: 5748

Measurements: 200.025 x 100.076 x 50.038 cm

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Physics (Ingrid’s leg)

Work ID: 5747

Measurements: 100.33 x 50.165 x 50.165 cm

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Physics (Tot Ziens / See you Again)

Work ID: 5744

Measurements: 350.52 x 149.86 x 99.06 cm

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Desert Flowers, (detail 2of 2)

Work ID: 5759

Measurements: 100.076 x 50.038 x 50.038 cm

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The Potato Eaters, (view 3 of 3)

Work ID: 5751

Measurements: towers range in height/hauteur des tours : 1.7052 x 1.6008 x 1.0266 m

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was…..oiseaux, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5752

Measurements: triptych: 100.076 x 50.038 x 50.038 cm; 254 x 127 x 127 cm / 100.076 x 100.076 x 100.076 cm; 254 x 254 x 254 cm / 100.076 x 250.0122 x 100.076 in,; 254 x 635 x 254 cm

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B. J.

Work ID: 5755

Description: B.J. was the central visual image used in promotion of the "Anti-Heroes" touring exhibition in Budapest, Hungary and Bratislava, Slovakia.

Measurements: 299.72 x 299.72 x 200.025 cm

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The Potato Eaters, (view 1 of 3)

Work ID: 5749

Measurements: towers range in height/hauteur des tours : 1.7052 x 1.6008 x 1.0266 m

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Flowers for Poland

Work ID: 5761

Measurements: 299.72 x 299.72 x 299.72 cm

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Bacon on Eggs

Work ID: 5756

Measurements: 100.076 x 50.038 x 149.86 cm

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was…..oiseaux, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5753

Measurements: triptych: 100.076 x 50.038 x 50.038 cm; 254 x 127 x 127 cm / 100.076 x 100.076 x 100.076 cm; 254 x 254 x 254 cm / 100.076 x 250.0122 x 100.076 in,; 254 x 635 x 254 cm

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Desert Flowers, (detail 1of 2)

Work ID: 5758

Measurements: 100.076 x 50.038 x 50.038 cm

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Desert Flowers

Work ID: 5757

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The Potato Eaters, (view 2 of 3)

Work ID: 5750

Measurements: towers range in height/hauteur des tours : 1.7052 x 1.6008 x 1.0266 m

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Chandelier

Work ID: 5754

Measurements: 100.076 x 100.076 x 50.038 cm

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Me Thing, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5762

Measurements: 499.872 x 100.076 x 100.076 cm

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Arabian Nights

Work ID: 5760

Measurements: 400.05 x 199.898 x 100.076 cm

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Me Thing, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5763

Measurements: 499.872 x 100.076 x 100.076 cm

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….a Romantic Lyrical Object for the Nassauplein, (detail 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5774

Description: Commissioned by the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Measurements: 1.37112 x 2.28288 x 1.14144 m

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Wet

Work ID: 5780

Measurements: 279.908 x 180.086 x 29.972 cm

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Five Years at 10 to 10, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5766

Description: Site specific theatre sculpture, commissioned for performance by Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

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….a Romantic Lyrical Object for the Nassauplein, (view 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5775

Description: Commissioned by the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Measurements: 1.37112 x 2.28288 x 1.14144 m

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Gauguin

Work ID: 5782

Measurements: 249.936 x 100.076 x 74.93 cm

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Michabo (indoor exhibition)

Work ID: 5772

Measurements: 249.936 x 124.968 x 20.066 cm

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….a Romantic Lyrical Object for the Nassauplein, (detail 2 of 2)

Work ID: 5776

Description: Commissioned by the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Measurements: 1.37112 x 2.28288 x 1.14144 m

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Michabo (exterior)

Work ID: 5771

Measurements: 299.72 x 100.076 x 20.066 cm

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My First Painting

Work ID: 5778

Measurements: 119.888 x 119.888 x 20.066 cm

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Linguini

Work ID: 5781

Measurements: 249.936 x 149.86 x 149.86 cm

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Lieve (Dear)

Work ID: 5779

Measurements: 299.72 x 50.038 x 50.038 cm

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Five Years at 10 to 10, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5765

Description: Site specific theatre sculpture, commissioned for performance by Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.

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….a Romantic Lyrical Object for the Nassauplein, (view 1 of 2)

Work ID: 5773

Description: Commissioned by the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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Love or Money

Work ID: 5777

Measurements: 100.076 x 50.038 cm

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One Minute Past (Budapest), (view 1 of 4)

Work ID: 5767

Description: Part of solo exhibition entitled "Anti-Heroes" which toured Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Moscow Russia.

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One Minute Past (Budapest), (view 4 of 4)

Work ID: 5770

Description: Part of solo exhibition entitled "Anti-Heroes" which toured Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Moscow Russia.

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One Minute Past (Budapest), (view 3 of 4)

Work ID: 5769

Description: Part of solo exhibition entitled "Anti-Heroes" which toured Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Moscow Russia.

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One Minute Past (Budapest), (view 2 of 4)

Work ID: 5768

Description: Part of solo exhibition entitled "Anti-Heroes" which toured Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia; Moscow Russia.

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Ah Hah

Work ID: 5785

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Women and Linguini

Work ID: 5783

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Promoting B. J. in Moscow

Work ID: 5786

Description: "Promoting B.J. in Moscow" was used in all advertising promotion of the "Anti-Heroes" tour to Moscow.

Measurements: variables : 256.54 x 121.92 x 2.54 cm

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The Elevated Wetlands, (during construction – 4)

Work ID: 5795

Description: Taken during second Community Planting, May 1999, in which over 200 students and their teachers from Gateway Elementary, Rawlinson Community School, St. Denis School, Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute, 40 staff members of R.V. Anderson & Associates, their families and various individual volunteers participated.

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