Harriet is a UK based printmaker and studied at the University of Brighton before starting her MA at the Royal College of Art.
In her work she explores the materiality of text through multiple print processes, writing and book making.
Harriet is a UK based printmaker and studied at the University of Brighton before starting her MA at the Royal College of Art.
In her work she explores the materiality of text through multiple print processes, writing and book making.
I am interested in ways in which we piece together words ….. letters … fragments…
shapes…. . how we search for familiar signifiers of meaning. I am not really trying to find meaning instead I dissect typography to create
f l o ating
disloc ate d
forms. That can or can’t be read. Textual slippages intend to reveal the dislocation between text and meaning in consumer and contemporary contexts. This language is opaque
instructive --- oozing a proposed sense of clarity (?)…
My practice explores what happens when this text becomes ….
fr ac tur e d
fragmen t e d ….
reduced to an
abstract
i n co mp lete form. Softly dislocated from its origins. Text sits and floats in pools of translucent colour ….
…. …… ..
diluted
illegible.
Abstracted forms occur in the in-between spaces of text. These often are ….
em p ty
gl owi ng
neutral (?)
vaca nt
spaces on our screens that are seen as the negative space of contemporary communication.
….
I look through
And in t o
Cut out colours, as light hits
A soft fuzzy g l o w
….