Artist, born and lived in London, who gained an honours degree in fine art at Goldsmiths’ College, 1992–5. Exhibitions included Stephen Friedman Gallery and Multiple Orgasm, Lost-in-Space, both 1995; and Nine Lives at 26 Chiltern Street and New Contemporaries at Tate Gallery, Liverpool, and at Camden Arts Centre, all 1996. Harding’s contribution to New Contemporaries included Hung I, 1995–6, an abstract in oil and gloss paint on canvas. He was included in the 1997–8 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, winning the £25,000 first prize in 2004. Solo exhibitions included Andrew Mummery, 2003. Harding’s paintings in that show defied easy categorisation. Process-based, they were made by pouring gloss paint through a trough on to a support covered with oil paint – wet into wet, and were said to “possess an almost romantic acknowledgement of life’s fragility.