Harry Flook – artist talk at College Road Campus

Fantastic talk yesterday by recent graduate Harry Flook who also studied at HCA before his degree. Harry talked about the importance of in depth research before embarking on a major project. Key advise to our students was to enter competitions and find work experience during their studies.

BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN
HARRY FLOOK
Info –
Through a focus on individuals’ and their stories, my current
project began as an exploration of my own experience leaving
religion, and has culminated in a chaptered body of work that
addresses the subject from differing perspectives.

Brief Project Outline
“There is a strong divide between the conservative and liberal
Christians in Tennessee, but the non-religious community is so
small that it is completely overlooked.” – Tad Beaty,
Chattanooga Humanist Assembly.

Beyond What is Written is a section of the aforementioned body
of work. I spent a month meeting and photographing various
non-religious communities in Tennessee; the ‘heart of the Bible
Belt’. The series explores the presence of religious imagery and
rhetoric in perceptions of the American dream, and the portraits
picture a relationship defined by shared absence from religion.
The project is about the loss and regaining of community, and
the changing religious landscape in America.