ARTIST STATEMENT
Noel Hart
……… Art, with its gift of fire stolen from nature, emancipates humanity. Its creative flame makes us godlike. The proof of this is the power art exercises over nature. Inside his mysterious semi-translucent envelopes essence of parrot is transmuted into flame; first extinguished, then alchemically revived, rendered precious. You would say that in Hart’s vision, the Ur-parrot, the one burning original parrot, from which all the world’s parrots – some 350 species plus at the present time - are descended, is the Phoenix, a symbol of art’s capacity to conjure out of extinction a renaissance.
From the essay ‘Alchemies for the Eye: Noel Hart’s Psittaculture’
By Prof. Paul Carter
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