Harrie McKay’s practice is oriented around the personal and collective memories we house within ourselves and hold physically within our body. The experience of touch is a fundamental aspect of McKay’s material and process-oriented practice. McKay explores the sensibility of connectedness through the labour-intensive processes of drawing with a ballpoint pen, combined with the layering of materials onto raw canvas. This process forms rich and worn textured surfaces that disclose the reiterative hand and material interplay. McKay’s immersive making may be understood as activating an interconnection between body, material and mind.
