Harriet Gillett

Available Works

Biography

Harriet Gillett (b. 1995, England) is a London-based painter and printmaker, whose colourful and fluid works explore aspects of contradiction within memory and nostalgia, and offer an element of escapism. Working from a combination of observational drawing and imagination, she creates composite imagery that is rooted in personal experience and takes further inspiration from literature, music, folklore and art history. She employs a variety of materials and processes, often bringing together seemingly opposing elements in order to playfully blur the lines between the traditional or the contemporary, abstraction and figuration, dream or reality. This year she recieved her Graduate Diploma in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Arts School, after graduating from Edinburgh University with a BA in English Literature in 2017. She was recently shortlisted for the Ingram prize and exhibited work with Purslane Art and Unit 1 Gallery Workshop. Harriet lives and works in London, UK.

Education

BA, City & Guilds of London Art School, 2019-2020

BA, Edinburgh College of Art, 2013-2017

Press

2020, Harriet Gillet, She Curates

2020, Grad Dip Fine Art, City and Guilds Art School

2020, The 2020 Ingram Prize Exhibition, Smartify

Exhibitions

2020, Life on Venus, The Tub, Hackney, UK (Group)
2020, Curated for Christmas, All Mouth & Bowes Paris Galleries, Wandsworth, London , UK (Group)
2020, The Empty Chair, All-Mouth Gallery, Online Exhibition (Solo)
2020, The Tales We Tell Ourselves, Purslane Art, Online Exhibition (Group)
2020, The Ingram Prize, Online Exhibition (Group)
2020, Final, Not Over, Unit 1 Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2019, Salon des Refuses, Camden Image Gallery, London, UK (Group)
2018, Visual Art Open Prize, Chester Arts Fair and Chapter House, Chester Cathedral, UK (Group)
2017, Wondering People, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland (Group)
2015, Creativity Takes Courage, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh , Scotland (Group)