An experimental space with a mission to bridge social and cultural gaps within the field of contemporary art, by working with and providing resources for under-represented artists.
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ABOUT
Savannah Harris (b. 1999) practice can be read as a stream of consciousness that ebbs and flows into complex environments. Her works are intuitively entangled with geometric shapes, texture and colour. Informed by geological and archaeological processes that have shaped and reshaped the earth. The act of painting becomes performative as she continuously deconstructs the space of the canvas; mimicking the faults, folds and traces present within the earth. The context and matter of the works reflects a porosity and mutability found within intricate geological landscapes, these reflections also present themselves in the slow build up of the multi-layered paintings. Often incorporating sand, tying to her Caribbean and Cuban heritage and a symbiotic reference to deep time, the works become organic renderings of a journey toward becoming. Revived from buried memories, the sand in her paintings invoke a history of lived experience.
Education
2021 - 2023 MA Painting, Royal College of Arts
2017 - 2020 BA Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Arts
Solo Exhibitions
An Ocean of Storms, Harlesden High Street, April 2024
Looking into the Shimmer, Harlesden High Street, Feb 2023
Group exhibitions
Morena Di Luna/Maureen Paley, Hove, 29 June 2024
Bump, Matt Carey-Williams, No.9 Freize Cork Street, 2024
Link me at the Sound System ‘23, London, 2023
Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2023
Heteronymous Painters Group Show Works on Paper, Studio 127, London, 2023
No. 34, PM/AM London, 2023
Raw, Soho Revue, 2022
Fairs
Independent Art Fair, NY, May 2025 (solo)
Frieze, London, October 2024 (solo)
Minor Attractions, London, October 2023 (solo)
Independent Art Fair, NY, May 2023 (group)
Awards
Artsy Vanguard Prize, Times Square New York, Feb 2024
Selected Press
Frieze 91 Feature
Financial Times (PDF Version here)
Savannah Marie Harris Artsy Vanguard Prize Winner 2024
Online art fairs prove their renewed value for small galleries, Financial Times, Feb 2024
A Constant Reworking, by Alycia Gaunt for Curatorial Affairs, July 2024