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19.9 – 12.10 2019
Rebecca Harper:Concrete Shadows
3–5 Swallow St
Rebecca Harper:Concrete Shadows
19.09 – 12.10.2019
Closed
Hours
Monday to Saturday
10:00 am – 5:30 pm
Gallery
3–5 Swallow St
London
W1B 4DE
Rebecca Harper | Concrete Shadows, 2019
Huxley-Parlour Gallery are delighted to announce an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by London-based painter Rebecca Harper.
These new works, all produced in 2019, build and expand on themes that Harper has explored throughout her career. The five works to be exhibited explore ideas of transience, displacement and nostalgia. Harper is interested in how we interact with the world around us, specifically connected to the ideas of displacement and alienation, and the subjects of her recent paintings are situated in what Harper describes as ‘middling space’: camping, tree climbing or mid-road trip. Although visually referencing the aesthetic of the classic British holiday snapshot, the initial wistfulness found in these scenes is disrupted by the precarious or temporary nature of the situations and settings.
Harper’s large-scale and lyrical paintings are rooted in a practice of drawing intensely from life. Harper interweaves these drawings from life with reconstructed scenes from memories, along with other mediated and second-hand imagery. Balancing both the particular and the universal, she seamlessly combines these many sources to produce plausible and richly detailed scenes that often feel dreamlike in their vivid and expressionistic colour palettes.
The EXHIBITION
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The Works
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Rebecca Harper
Concrete Shadows
2019
Acrylic on canvas
Rebecca Harper
Repetition Rooted in That Earlier Grief, 1
2019
Acrylic on canvas
Rebecca Harper
Repetition Rooted in That Earlier Grief, 2
2019
Acrylic on canvas
Rebecca Harper
The Spirit of Alienness
2019
Acrylic on canvas
Rebecca Harper
Trying to Travel the Spaces Between Us
2019
Acrylic on canvas
B. United Kingdom1989
Biography
Rebecca Harper is an important figure amongst emerging artists who explore new approaches to figurative painting. Harper’s large-scale and lyrical paintings are rooted in a practice of drawing intensely from life. She interweaves these drawings with reconstructed scenes from memories, along with other mediated and second-hand imagery. Balancing both the particular and the universal, Harper seamlessly combines these many sources to produce plausible and richly detailed scenes that often feel dreamlike in their vivid and expressionistic colour palettes.
Harper was born in 1989 in London. She studied Drawing and Applied Arts at UWE Bristol, graduating in 2011. She went on to study at The Royal Drawing School from 2012-2014 and Turps Art School from 2016-2018. Harper’s work has been exhibited in a number of prestigious group shows including the 2019 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery in 2018. She has been awarded the Michael Moritz residency in Tuscany, as well as at the Modi Institute of Fine Art, India, The Ryder Project Studio Prize and the Artist Collecting Society Studio Prize in 2018. Her work is held in a number of private and public collections, including the Ruth Borchard Collection, Dumfries House Collection and the Royal Collection. Since 2014, Harper has taught through the Royal Drawing School at various London institutions including The Saatchi Gallery, The V&A Museum of Childhood, the Southbank Centre and The National Gallery.
She lives and works in London.