Connie Harrison is an artist who devotes her explorative painting technique as a reference to the natural world. In Midst, Unfolding presents a departure from the artists traditional way of painting, in recent work, compositions have been influenced by singular brushstrokes similarly to artists of the impressionist, fauve movement, instead, in the exhibition, comprehensive, new works are driven by the movement of layering brushstrokes which are applied to the surface in different orders, and combinations of colour form compositions of abstracted landscapes.
The works in the exhibition are a personal account of how Harrison appreciates nature. Each painting is a metaphor of life’s rhythms and cycles and offers the viewer glimpses of a subject. The works are suspended, timeless and neither sit as abstraction nor landscape, we are somewhere in between, being pushed and pulled by the artists creative demeanour, multiple layers of mark making and scars of drawing, removing layers are contrasted by organic solid forms, bringing balance, holding the fragments of the landscape together. The scenes are growing, dying, moving and breathing, they are ‘In Midst, Unfolding’.
About the artist
Connie Harrison (b.1993) graduated from the Chelsea College of Arts, after completing a foundation at New College, Nottingham. Recent solo exhibitions include, ‘In Midst, Unfolding, Informality, London (2023), ‘Knitted Hedges’, Blue Shop Gallery, London (2023), ‘Nurtured Furrows’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh (2022). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Collective Ending (2021), Delphian Gallery (2021), Unit 1 Gallery (2021), Flowers Gallery (2020), among others. Her work was exhibited at the London Art Fair in 2022. In 2021 Harrison undertook a residency at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop and also in the same year her work featured in Saatchi Art ‘21 artists to collect in 2021’.
