HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE TURNER PRIZE: 28/9/2019 - 12/1/2020
EXHIBITION FOREWORD :
Anima Mundi is delighted to present a selection of paintings by British painter Rebecca Harper, on show at The Sands Hotel, Margate, held in conjunction with the 2019 Turner Prize. The Sands Hotel is Margate’s premier boutique hotel set in prime position on the sea front of Marine Drive, less than 5 minutes walk from the Turner Contemporary home of this years Turner Prize.
In the exhibited paintings, selected from Harper’s recent solo exhibition ‘Chameleon’ at Anima Mundi, the diasporic condition presents itself as an unfolding allegorical commentary. The works become a contemplation of transience, a theatre in which human instinct compassionately addresses ideas of settlement, a reaction to one’s, or anothers, transient restlessness and displacement and a complex dispersion of un-at-homeness and groundlessness...
In the exhibited paintings, selected from Harper’s recent solo exhibition ‘Chameleon’ at Anima Mundi, the diasporic condition presents itself as an unfolding allegorical commentary. The works become a contemplation of transience, a theatre in which human instinct compassionately addresses ideas of settlement, a reaction to one’s, or anothers, transient restlessness and displacement and a complex dispersion of un-at-homeness and groundlessness...
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Harper’s often large-scale paintings, underpinned by intense drawing, demonstrate a mode of reconstructing visual appearances; events, beliefs, dreams, memory and mediated imagery, whereby seamless, sometimes fictional fragmentations are rearranged and presented as plausible happenings. The motives of her works are intended to be contradictory, at once both particular and general, restrained and ornate, whole and fragmented, detectable and imperceptible, relatable and distant, reflecting the complex duality of the human condition.
Harper studied at UWE Bristol from 2008-2011, The Royal Drawing School from 2012-2014 and Turps Art School from 2016-2018. Since 2014 she has taught, through the Royal Drawing School at various institutions including The Saatchi Gallery, The V&A Museum of Childhood, Cass Arts, Drawing School Central/Selfridges, The Southbank Centre, Camberwell College of Arts, The National Gallery; She was awarded The Michael Moritz residency Tuscany and The Modi Institute of Fine Art, India in 2014.
Harper is represented in both private and public collections including the Royal Collections, The Ruth Borchard Collection, the Ullens Collection and the Allbright Club. She has exhibited in numerous group shows including Christies London and New York and most recently been included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018. She has also exhibited at ‘Artist of the Day’ at Flowers Gallery 2018, Supersimetrica Art Fair, The Pie Factory / Turner Contemporary - Turner show in Margate, ‘Concrete Shadows’ at Huxley Parlour, London and The Turps Gallery London. She was artist in residence at Santozeum Museum, Santorini in 2019 and is currently Artist in Residence for the Ryder Project at A.P.T in Deptford. She was also a recent recipient of the ACS (Artists Collecting Society) Studio Prize in 2018. Rebecca Harper is represented by Anima Mundi.
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