Chris Horder (born in

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, New South Wales in 1976) is an Australian

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Education

Horder completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honours at the

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in 2008 and in 2011 was awarded the Young Emerging Artist Award in the

Mosman Art Prize The Mosman Art Prize is an annual art award made by the corporation of Mosman, a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales. It has been running since 1947. Past adjudicators also include notable Australian art figures such as Margaret Preston, John Olsen ...

. His works has been displayed at Liverpool Street Gallery in Sydney. A central theme to his works is "idea of the alchemy of the subconscious and the metaphysical aspects of paint itself, the work challenges the viewer’s interpretation of the visual world through the indulgences of chance imagery".

References

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