Kathy Harris

Joined Artfinder: April 2016

Artworks for sale: 18

(24)

United Kingdom

Updates from Kathy Harris's studio

  • Hallway of Time

    Hallway of Time

    Now it is you that comes to visit in my precious memories. How naive I was to the comforting sounds of your ticking clocks, as I hopscotch through your hallway of time. Moments safe now embedded within. Please do evoke again sometime. When we were children, we used to visit our grandparents. Now those happy memories visit me and are indeed seeds for sculpture just as Louise Bourgeois quotes.“I need my memories. They are my documents. I keep watch over them. They are my privacy, and I am intensely jealous of them. Paul Cézanne said: ‘I am jealous of my little sensations.’ To reminisce and wool-gather is negative. You have to differentiate between memories. Are you going to them or are they coming to you? If you are going to them, you are wasting time. Nostalgia is not productive. come to you, they are the seeds for sculpture.” The floor is designed using watch mechanism pieces, handmade tiles with crystal plaster. The miniature grandfather clock works as well as the pendent clock.

    15 December 2018
    Sellafield Ltd exhibition ‘The Art of Reprocessing’

    Sellafield Ltd exhibition ‘The Art of Reprocessing’

    “The narrative of construction” by Kathy Harris “for years to come the dramatic story to be told and retold, of the tall theatrical dancers acting on centre stage for one of the bravest construction performances ever shown in the United Kingdom”. This sculpture plays its part within the Sellafield Ltd exhibition ‘The Art of Reprocessing’ by displaying the story on the theme of construction within the clean-up of the Plant.A detailed miniature sculpture designed around the structural likeness in scale and complexity of the project.The theme delivered using a mixture of found objects and wire. Each element of the theme carefully considered on likeness and scale, and then strategically placed within the model.

    15 December 2018
    Use in meduim

    Use in meduim

    I have come to realise I am trying to recall the place where I felt safe and happiest as a child, that safe place where “I was who I was”. That place was my grandparents’ house where I really felt loved and the house was full of homeliness. I am at a loss in not remembering the full details of those happy times, like all of us with reminiscing. Confusing on details of furnishings! Which is the reason I use a faded imagery in my work on surfaces, so it is not fully recognisable. Or not sure it existed! I designed each scene “ into a corner. Using mixed media surfaces of old wallpaper styles. I dipped the furniture in plaster and painted the interior in a silk paint called “mystical mornings”. This technique gives the right mood, faded light. The furniture almost disappears into the walls, leaving shadows of their old self without their specific décor details.Almost translucent like in a daydream. Not quite visible, not quite a reality.

    10 June 2018
    Disturbed angles of deep orderliness

    Disturbed angles of deep orderliness

    "Poetics of Space" by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. "The products of absolute imagination owe itself to the entire being to the imagination. Does there exist a single dreamer of the words who does not respond to the word wardrobe? The inner space of an old wardrobe is deep. A wardrobes inner space is also intimate space, space that is not open just to anyone. In the wardrobe there exists a centre of order that protects the entire house against uncurbed disorder.”

    10 June 2018
    I am the corner where I am

    I am the corner where I am

    Gaston Bachelard... “ The corner is a sort of half box, part walls, part door. It serves as an illustration for dialectics of inside and out. “every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination: it is the germ of a room, or of house. Only the dreamer of corners will understand the full meaning of curling up in contemplation and the simple joys of declined repose. A corner that is “lived in” tends to reject the restrain, even hide, life. In one’s corner one does not talk to oneself. When we recall the hours we spent in our corners, we remember above all the silence, the silence of our thoughts."

    10 June 2018
    A scent of my being

    A scent of my being

    My inspiration came from the book "Poetics of Space" by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. “here and there in the brain, keep sake boxes that persevere fragments of the past. Here, at least, was reliable, that could be counted on. You saw what you were looking at and you touched what you touched. The proportions were what they should be and everything about it had been designed and calculated by a meticulous mind for purposes of unity. They are hybrid objects, subject objects. Like us, through us and for us, they have a quality of intimacy.

    10 June 2018
    The importance of home

    The importance of home

    Isn’t it true that to sincerely read a house its memories and daydreams need to be revealed? And therefore, doesn’t a home add the poetry to a house? If only we could return through the imagination alone and remind ourselves. To daydream and escape into our imagination and return to that safe place that only the daydreamers of the old home can experience. Kathy Harris

    10 June 2018
    Studio 2018

    Studio 2018

    The subject being the poetic spaces of a home such as corners. The rooms in the old house from a different land, a childhood home or the dream home. Inspired by the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard in his book the "Poetics of Space". “every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination: it is the germ of a room, or of house. Only the dreamer of corners will understand the full meaning of curling up in contemplation and the simple joys of declined repose. A corner that is “lived in” tends to reject the restrain, even hide, life. In one’s corner one does not talk to oneself. When we recall the hours we spent in our corners, we remember above all the silence, the silence of our thoughts.

    10 June 2018
    the "Core"

    the "Core"

    Inspired by the poetry from Bachelard’s ‘The Poetics of Space’, I wrote the following words to in-vite other daydreams to stop and remember home; Dear old safe place of the imagination Fine lines of time evidenced on these walls Throw aside your fancy dress and reveal your inner core Centre stage awaits you Shine the spotlight on your soul Return home daydreamers and rest your memories at this door

    11 March 2018
    Room with a view & Memory Mirror

    Room with a view & Memory Mirror

    This is an art photograph timepiece memory in the mirror of a moment captured in my abandoned room which I built into an old 1920's cigar box. I wanted to create a feeling of a once loved home with the surface of the walls showing age and time neglect taken against a natural background which allows the wind to move the curtains lending itself to the atmospheric set. Placing found objects in creating a mood and sense of mystery or questions on signs of present habitation... along with a sense of place. Using a unique photo transfer I placed the memory into the back of an antique mirror to hold the rooms memory forever...I feel the frame lends itself to the photography.

    21 June 2017
    Being Human Exhibition

    Being Human Exhibition

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    10 June 2017
    Being Human

    Being Human

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    10 June 2017