Harriet White

Harriet’s work explores themes of ambiguity and artifice. With indisputable virtuosity she marries photographic accuracy with painterly distortion to create a removed ‘version’ of an image, suggestive of some kind of narrative while never clarifying what that might be.

The cinematic dimensions and the use of devices such as theatrical makeup, wigs and synthetic lighting render the source imagery at once heavily composed but also ambiguous, even unnerving. All of these elements may reference the artificial world of cinema, but they run deeper, transformed into something dreamt, misremembered or removed. Her most recent work takes this further; nondescript areas of woodland and scrub are transformed into magical abstracted stage sets, devoid of apparent action but, again, strangely resonant of some unexplained narrative.

GBS Fine Art