Harold Jefferies

Biography

Harold Jefferies (*1991, Brisbane, AUS) is an artist based in Bern. Having completed a bachelor’s degree at the Haute école d’art et de design de Genève, he has continued to develop his practice in his studio in Lausanne. He likes landscapes and his favourite colour is green. 

Artist Statement

My practice explores the relationship between perception, representation and technological mediation under postdigital conditions. Through expanded painting, I examine how images, materials and spatial situations shape the way reality is perceived and experienced. Landscapes are used as a tactic of non-composition, treating them as fields through which atmosphere, orientation and spatial tension emerge. The works are produced through advanced manufacturing, including CNC milling, digital scanning, AI and data management, which materialise the relationship between physical form and digital mediation.

I approach representation as an active process that shapes perception in relation to a situated environment. The resulting works occupy a space between image, object and environment, where representation becomes a material and spatial operation activated through the viewer’s encounter with the work.