Harriet White
Harriet’s work explores themes of ambiguity and artifice. With indisputable virtuosity she marries photographic accuracy with painterly distortion to create a removed ‘version’ of an image, suggestive of some kind of narrative while never clarifying what that might be.
The cinematic dimensions and the use of devices such as theatrical makeup, wigs and synthetic lighting render the source imagery at once heavily composed but also ambiguous, even unnerving. All of these elements may reference the artificial world of cinema, but they run deeper, transformed into something dreamt, misremembered or removed.
The tangles 2023
Oil on linen; 120 x 90 cm
Framed
Low down 2023
Oil on linen; 40 x 30 cm
Framed
Copse 2023
Oil on linen; 70 x 50 cm
Framed
Sphere 2021
Oil on canvass; 120 x 120 cm
Sphere 2021 (in situ)
Oil on canvass; 120 x 120 cm
Cloak 2021
Oil on board; 91 x 122 cm
Facade 2022
Oil on aluminium; 120 x 90 cm
Mosaic 2019
Oil on linen; 85 x 202 cm
Fable 2019
Oil on linen; 96 x 178 cm
Prices available on request.