Lot 96 - Coral Harding - Cradle

Pencil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Moriah Ogunbiyi

About

Coral Harding (b. 2001, London) is a recent BA graduate from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Her work explores the sensuality of memory, tradition and cultural experience in the forms of site-specific sculpture, drawing and painting. Employing materials used within ritual and commemoration, including cloves, willow branches and intricate metal objects Coral communicates the sensitivity and vulnerability of these materials through her presentation of their exposed and overwhelming sensory potential and tactility. Working with existing architectural features in the spaces within which she shows her work, Coral highlights specific structural details through her utilisation of the sensory. She explores the emotionally penetrative and reminiscent nature of smell and its ability to destabilise spatial boundaries. A lyricism between compression and diffusion, containment and expansion, architecture and atmosphere.

Education

2020-2024
BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London, UK

2019-2020
Art Foundation, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2024
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Gestures: Contemporary Visions - Group Exhibition, Crane Court Gallery in collaboration with James Hyman Gallery, Fleet Street, London.
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Corporate Unwellness - Group Exhibition, Vienna, Austria.

Re-Rooted: The Quiet Politics of Plants - Group Exhibition, Cooke-Latham Gallery, Battersea, London.
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Thirty - Group Exhibition, Albemarle Street, Mayfair, London.
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'Hearth' at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
The Royal Academy of Arts. Selected by Anne Desmet RA.
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Medienfrische Artist Residency, Boden, Austria.
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Slade School of Fine Art Degree Show, UCL, London
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Bandham - Group Exhibition, The Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

Colour/Pigment/Poetry - Online Exhibition,
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
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2023
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Art on a Postcard - Summer Auction. Exhibited at Hoxton Gallery, Auctioned with Dreweatts 1759 for the Hepatitis C Trust.
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Bedrock - Group Exhibition, Crypt Gallery.
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INTERIM - Group Exhibition, Candid Arts Gallery, Angel.
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Colour/Pigment/Poetry - Online Exhibition,
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
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Awards

2025
Artist Development Scheme, JR, UK

2024
Art Residency, Medienfrische, Austria

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

Cradle examines the use of light and shadow to explore an expansive tree whose bounds continue beyond the image frame. A lyricism of surface and texture, colour and shape, frame and space.