Harriet Hedden

Wednesday 3 November 2021

Horse (Sirens)

Horse (Sirens)- a short film

Synopsis

A found fragment of Alla Nazimove dancing in Salome (1922) was the starting point of this collaboration with dancer Ino Riga. HORSE (WHISKEY) looks at the act of storytelling, performance and recalled experience. Ostensibly a pas de deux, it narrates a navigation of the self, the fragmentation of memory and time travel from past and present.

Friday 28 May 2021

Isadora

No verified record of dancer Isadora Duncan exists - only her words.

An unverified fragment of film of a woman dancing in front of the sea is presented

as Isadora dancing on the Parthenon.

Isadora is an exploration of time and place.

Found film shows a fictional place presented as the Parthenon, a random temple sets the scene : a blurring of reality. In the film the narrator's voice changes gender as a chorus using words from the diary of Isadora: her memory describes an experience of what Freud later calls Derealisation, recalled during his own transcendent experience visiting the Parthenon. Transfixed by the power of the image and the disconnect from reality, her words fragile from the time of the grand tour where the European took the place as their own.

Isadora was the jury's selection for the 2021 Mayfair Art Weekend Showreel and is currently part of the exhibition Wanderlust/All passports organised by Artefact in the Heinrich Schleiman Melas mansion,

Athens 17th October - 17th November 2024

Friday 5 February 2021

Post European

Oil mixed media on Somerset black
119cm x 90cm

Bathers
Oil on paper
70x55cm

The Europeans (shipwreck) Series Work on paper 2017-2019

Head study 1 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

Head study 2 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

Head study 2 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

Head study 2 The Europeans
Ink on Somerset 300gsm
50cm x 70 cm

study The europeans
silkscreen and mixed media on paper
80cm x 60cm
A0 Somerset 300gsm

study field of dreamers

monotype and oil on paper

70 x 50 cm

study

The Swimmer
Monotype/ mixed media on paper
84cm x 118cm

Detail


Out at sea Monotype/mixed media on paper 84cm x 118c

Out at sea II
Monotype/ mixed media on paper
84cm x 118cm

The Swimmer
Monotype/ mixed media on paper
84cm x 118cm

The Swimmer - detail
Monotype/ mixed media on paper
84cm x 118cm

Thursday 12 September 2019

lost at sea - rafters

rafters
oil mixed media on paper
60cm x 75cm

lost at sea 2
oil mixed media on paper
60cm x 75cm

Sunday 16 December 2018

The Forest 2004

The forest

A short film in collaboration with composer Nikos Dimitrakopoulos for a performance by Costas Anastopoulos (lead violinist Athens Opera)

Berlin Biennale 2003

Kreutzburg Ballhaus

Tuesday 12 June 2018

Winterreise 2018

Winterreise

Paintings 2017-2019

Figure 1
Oil and Monotype on paper
84x59cm

Figure 1 Detail

Figure 1
Oil and Monotype on paper
84x59cm

head
Oil and Monotype on paper
84x59cm

head study
Oil on Linen
50x40cm

detail

head study
oil on paper
50x40 cm

Woman II
Monotype & Oil on Paper
50 x 40 cm

figure papier mache

If you do not come too close
Oil & Mixed media on paper
78 x 52 cm

detail

Winterreise
Oil on Linen 80 x 55cm

Detail

Detail

All images copyright Harriet Hedden

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Biography

The human body occupies the main site of my visual practice. The body as source of experience and an exploration of it’s vulnerability. The transformation - and translation - of materiality and desire.

As a woman I see painting as a response - a possibility to describe another narrative, a prospect of change. Sometimes I explore the illusions of the body depicted in history key moments in social periods. Through the process of making I reimagine to connect to the present or future, the re-envisioning of self and society.

As Derrida writes Pregnances

“In a way, a woman says of her own as a woman: “I have no history,” or “this version of history is not mine but yours… and I’m showing it to you, representing it to you after the fact, with other eyes, a woman’s eyes.”

I play with the idea of fluidity in paint, medium, and forms - of something always moving: subjectivity in the material. My recent work using three dimensional structures is an exploration of the mutable- a line that circumnavigates space. The figures intertwine and combine, always moving, never static and the sculptures are designed to change and reconfigure.

The paint and processes change as do the supports - working in film, sculpture print and a variety of investigative approaches, I explore what and how an idea in the medium can be visible .I try to find the materiality of the invisible

Harriet Hedden studied painting at Norwich School of Art from 1986-1989, and following a year as Artist in Residence in Bedford, went for two years to Freiburg, Germany as a guest of Prof. Peter Dreher, at the Staatliche Akademie für Bildenen Kunst where she also taught at the Albert Ludwig Universität.

On her return to London she won an AHRB scholarship for two years to study at the Slade School of Fine Art where she completed her MA in Fine Art in She currently teaches at Chelsea College of Art & Design , London.

Her work is held in British Museum, Strang Print Collection UCL, Deutschbank, the Tassos Printmaking Archive Greece, Bedford Museum as well as private collections

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