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Harriet Gillett
Hairriet Gillett is a painter and printmaker from London whose vibrant and fluid pieces explore aspects of contradiction within memory and nostalgia and provide some level of escape. She was born in 1995, her work veers between concerns with identification, surveillance, and our interactions with myths and the natural world. She draws from a combination of observational drawing and memory, fusing the past, present, and the fantastic, with influences ranging from the literary to the art historical and animals.

About
Harriet, who is dyslexic, investigates the impact this has on her work by establishing unexpected connections between ideas that other people might perceive as being in opposition to one another. She inspires other artists as someone who is dyslexic but can be creative and adventurous. Harriet frequently juxtaposes seemingly unrelated elements or subjects, blurring the boundaries between tradition and modernity, abstraction and figuration, and dream and reality. This strategy fits with the artist's "narrative, flowing, and psychological" aesthetic. For instance, mixing watercolour colours to indicate fluidity or applying organic oil over acidic spray paint. The resulting pieces reflect the mystique and beauty of the in-between and have an oniric aesthetic.

Accomplishments
Harriet graduated from City and Guilds Art School with a BA in English Literature and an MA in Fine Art. She was shortlisted for the Ingram prize in 2020 and has exhibitions this year, including Delphian at the Saatchi Gallery and a two-person show at London's Soho Revue. She now resides and works in London, but she is originally from East Yorkshire.