Lot 315 - Harriet Bone - Paper Hope

Oil on canvas
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Loss and longing, comfort and the uncomfortable, experience and fiction. I am preoccupied with finding the contradictions > dialogues > dialectics within experience. I make work about the tensions I experience within lived experience. Visually my work is artificially bright, high chroma, and theatrically staged; this language allows me to explore complex and personal topics from a distanced and fictionalised lens. Exploring the dialogue between reality and fiction and the contradictions inherent in pursuing the personal through unreality.
My work is episodic in nature and functions as a narrative. The individual works are episodes or chapters within a canon. The work reflects myself as a person.

Education
2017 to 2018
Foundation, Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), Bournemouth, Devon

2018 to 2021
Fine Art BA, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey

September 2023 - September 2024
Fine Art MA, City and Guilds of London Art School

Group Exhibitions
2018
Grid Show, Kingston University, London

2019
MAN-MADE MAN, Kingston University, London
Bookish, Kingston University, London

2020
Amongst 1 and 0, Kingston University, London

2021
The X Collab, @x.collab on Instagram
While We Were Gone, @Displaced_Studios
All In A Day's Work, @Displaced Studios

2022
Art Space Open Day, Art Space Portsmouth
Autumn Fields, Yellow Edge Gallery, Gosport
Paint and Clay, Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth

2024
MA Degree Show 2024, City and Guilds of London Art School

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Both works are part of my series of works started on my MA course last year. The series explores the relationship between death, life, and the digital. How can we understand our physical human bodies in relation to our rich inner worlds, and how do physical desires manifest within?