Lara Hardie

artist and writer from South Africa

Below is the showcase of my biggest projects to date

Saudade: a collection

Saudade is a collection of short stories and musings, all with an accompanying artwork to further illustrate the tone and atmosphere and bring to life the characters within. The stories range from fantasy and horror to non-fiction snippets from my journals.

Succubus: a novel

Succubus tells the story of Suda, a solitary girl who sees the typical challenges of teenage life through an atypical lens. As Suda performs in her waking life the milestones of adolescence and adulthood - making friends, going to parties, falling in love and lust - each thought, feeling and experience filters through to settle onto her subconscious, where it blooms into life.

Primordial Soup: a graphic novel

Primordial Soup is a graphic novel which tells the story of Ruth, a woman living in Cape Town who is approaching her thirties with trepidation, resentment and an overwhelming case of ennui, heavily influenced by her untreated depression. After a particularly terrible week, she decides to reject evolution, renounce her humanity, and become a crab.