HARRIET GILLETT
Artist Profile
Harriet Gillett is a British painter whose work explores memory, language and the instability of narrative. Gillett begins with sketches made from life, turning observations from social gatherings and everyday encounters into layered compositions that hover between specificity and ambiguity.
Harriet Gillett’s paintings often dissolve figures into washes of colour, allowing scenes to feel both intimate and elusive. Influenced by literature and songwriting, Gillett is attentive to how language shapes perception. Like stories retold, her images shift subtly in tone and meaning, resisting fixed interpretation.
Harriet Gillett completed her MFA in Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2022, having previously studied English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. She was shortlisted for the Ingram Prize in 2020 and selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2023 — a significant platform for emerging artists in the UK.
Recent exhibitions include presentations with Brooke Benington, Roman Road, and Delphian x Saatchi, as well as her debut solo exhibition This Must Be the Place at LAMB Gallery, London (2024). She also completed a residency at Palazzo Monti, Italy, further consolidating her expanding exhibition profile.
Across her practice, Harriet Gillett continues to examine how images, like language, construct and unsettle meaning.
