Harriet Gillett

(b 1995, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London)

Harriet Gillett is a London-based painter and printmaker; whose colourful and fluid works explore aspects of contradiction within memory and nostalgia; offering 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. Gillet employs a variety of materials and processes; often bringing together seemingly opposing elements in order to playfully blur the lines between the traditional and the contemporary; abstraction and figuration; dream or reality.