Harriet Gillett
With the day comes the dawn, 2023
Oil and spray paint on linen
160 x 130cm
Born in 1995 in East Yorkshire, England. Lives and works in London, UK. Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly...
Born in 1995 in East Yorkshire, England. Lives and works in London, UK.
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett’s practice attempts to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie.
Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to playfully tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
She works from sketches she makes in pubs and bars, later capturing those moments and atmospheres in her paintings. Working predominantly with oil and spray-paint, she layers thin veils of suggestive brushwork over a warm fluorescent ground that is reminiscent of the gold within icon paintings and a “rose-tinted” lens; enabling the work to position itself between the past and present, the traditional and the contemporary, both in terms of its imagery and materiality.
Moving between intimate works evoking more personal memories, and scaled-up pieces that take on a more universal quality, the paintings are dreamlike and lyrical explorations of memory and shifting perspective.
Harriet Gillett (b.1995 East Yorkshire) is an artist living and working in London. She received her MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds art school in 2022 after studying a BA in English Literature at Edinburgh University 2017). Recent exhibitions include group shows at Brooke Benington, Roman Road, Delphian x Saatchi and duos with Soho Revue and New Normal Projects. She was shortlisted for the Ingram prize in 2020 and is one of the 2023 New Contemporaries. In 2024 she will undertake the Palazzo Monti
Residency.
Responding to an increasingly digitalised world where images and time periods merge and appear in one seemingly eternal present, Harriet Gillett’s practice attempts to slow down these increasingly fast-paced encounters into images of reverie.
Taking reference from the emotionally charged vibrancy of post-Impressionism and the devotional nature of Western religious formats, her combination of traditional subjects with contemporary materials enables her to playfully tread a line between multiple perspectives and time periods.
She works from sketches she makes in pubs and bars, later capturing those moments and atmospheres in her paintings. Working predominantly with oil and spray-paint, she layers thin veils of suggestive brushwork over a warm fluorescent ground that is reminiscent of the gold within icon paintings and a “rose-tinted” lens; enabling the work to position itself between the past and present, the traditional and the contemporary, both in terms of its imagery and materiality.
Moving between intimate works evoking more personal memories, and scaled-up pieces that take on a more universal quality, the paintings are dreamlike and lyrical explorations of memory and shifting perspective.
Harriet Gillett (b.1995 East Yorkshire) is an artist living and working in London. She received her MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds art school in 2022 after studying a BA in English Literature at Edinburgh University 2017). Recent exhibitions include group shows at Brooke Benington, Roman Road, Delphian x Saatchi and duos with Soho Revue and New Normal Projects. She was shortlisted for the Ingram prize in 2020 and is one of the 2023 New Contemporaries. In 2024 she will undertake the Palazzo Monti
Residency.
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