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Victoria Harrison, FRSA
Victoria Harrison is a London-based artist visualising the beauty captured by the delicate balance of nature and humanity.
Harrison’s diverse art practice experiments with various media and techniques evolving into pure abstraction, with an intuitive feel for colour and light. She is fascinated by transformational processes, taking enjoyment in the freedom of exploring the potential of her materials.
Over the past two decades, Harrison developed her artistic career investigating new narratives and processes. These include collage, gilding, spray-painting, colour-play and more recently up-cycling. The changing histories of objects and repurposing of otherwise discarded things, which are given new life to be valued and loved afresh through rediscovered beauty.
Interested in the creative metamorphosis that occurs when she paints an object, crops an image or mixes materials, Harrison sees beyond the quotidian nature of an artefact to imagine new ways to reclaim it into an artwork. In this way, a new material aesthetic arises from innovative transformations. Her practice breaks down preconceived ideas about what art is, the nature of beauty, and what constitutes value.
Confronting themes of our consumerist and wasteful society practically, the paintings and sculptures hold a resourcefulness that is cheerful and celebratory, sometimes connecting to personal biography as hinted at through her captions. Her work is also reflective around the meaning and execution of creativity, inviting the viewer to participate in her playful, experimental and inventive art.
Harrison has exhibited in the UK, Spain and the USA and her art published in books and catalogues. Her works are held in private and corporate collections in the UK and USA.
PUBLICATIONS
2024
Jan - Honoured to be featured as one of 8 artists to watch by SHEERLUXE Magazine
2023
June - Amalfi, Italy 2017 Feb, Featured in 180 Spaces magazine
Feb - Amalfi, Italy 2017 Feb, Featured in The Frank magazine
2021 April - Picnic, Richmond 2020 Featured in Artistic Impressions, The World Of Interiors - Condé Nast Publications Ltd
2019 July - Summer Scent 2019, Published on Col\ecteurs on-line Magazine: The Collective Museum of Private Collections
2007 - View of Majaladares, Published 2007 – Majaladares (Spain). A Bronze Age Village of Farmers, Hunters and Herders
GROUP SHOWS
2023
October - Knightsbridge, London. Details to follow
September
-invited to show at GARAGE, Germany, pop up show
- invited to participate in open studios, Brockley, London
June - Interrupted Art, Unmute: Artist stories heard, Somerset House, London during London Design Bienniale
2022
September - Taylor & Marr Interrupted Art pop up show
2020
November - Selected for 2020 Seasons Online Art Exhibition at J Mane Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
October - Selected for 10th Annual "Landscapes" Online Art Competition - Light Space & Time Gallery, Palm Springs, California, USA
July - Selected and awarded Honourable Mention, Envision Arts, Summer, Contemporary exhibition, Texas, USA
May - Selected by Saatchi Art Chief Curator and Director Rebecca Wilson, for New This Week Collection on Saatchi Art's homepage:
https://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/New-This-Week-5-11-2020/153961/352371/view
February -Invited to show at Parallax Art Fair - Kensington Town Hall, Hornton St, Kensington, London, W8 7NX
December 2019 - January 2020
Selected by Envision Arts for Halcyon Art Exhibition, The Janette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas Texas, USA www.envisionartshow.com/halcyon
2019
Planet Earth, Contemporary Art Gallery Online (CAGO)
Skies (2019) Juried Art Exhibition, Fusion Art
2017 -2018
Nature’s Expressionism, 1 Webbs Road, London
2011
Popup art fair, Richmix, Shoreditch, London
Popup art fair, Whitechapel Road, Bethnal Green, London
2010
Group Exhibition with Hesketh Hubbard Society, The Mall, London
2009
Group Exhibition with Hesketh Hubbard Society, The Mall, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Landscapes & Light, Artspace Galleries, 18 Maddox St, Mayfair, London
COMMISSIONS
HSBC Bank Plc, commissioned three works 2006/7
Victoria Harrison is self-represented and takes clients on a limited basis.
Her works are available for sale on the Saatchi Art website: https://www.saatchiart.com/victoriaharrison
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