The Tenderness of Wild Things

TIM HARDY

Tim Hardy, Hamish, 2017, digital photograph

Tim Hardy, Hamish, 2017, digital photograph

Our society conditions boys to suppress vulnerable, delicate and effeminate behaviour. This attitude continues into adulthood, where expressions of femininity are ridiculed; isolating men daring to deviate from the image and behaviours of masculinity. 
'The Tenderness of Wild Things' captures men known to the artists in an intimate space and light, portraying a delicate beauty that is rarely associated with being "a man".

These photographs alongside the words of poet Omar Musa challenges conventional expressions of masculinity and invites the viewer to connect with each subject’s vulnerability.

Tim Hardy is a Canberra based artist working with photography and zines.

 

14th - 17th December 2017

Opening 15th December

 
 
 

Tributary Projects is supported by Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centres.

Tributary Projects acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and waters in which we operate, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, as well as the Ngarigu people and others who traded on, traveled through, and connected with this country, and continue to do so. We pay our respects to their Ancestors and Elders and acknowledge that sovereignty of these lands was never ceded.