Sara Jayne Harris

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    • Exhibitions
      • Atkinson Gallery
      • ArtCore Gallery
      • The Great Divide OVADA
      • MA Graduation Show
      • Walton Library
      • RA Summer Exhibition 2018
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      • 5th Base Gallery
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Sara Jayne Harris

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About

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Sara Jayne Harris is a visual artist living and working in the UK. She has a special interest in figurative representations and investigates themes concerning identity, temporality, pluralism and rituals through her multi media practice. Alongside her figurative sculptural works her practice seeks to animate the inanimate and to conjure a state of presence. 

Practice

Practice

Practice

  • Familial narratives and fragments of memory manifest into figurative and printed forms. The physicality and objectification of memory is playfully explored for dis-play. 

Research

Practice

Practice

  • Etymology and genealogy research underpin the works. Social history and an interest in the quotidian provides the catalyst for the narratives works. Humanity is at the core of the works. 

Artist Statement

Mammet (Puridad) 2018

Mammets: a metaphor for a form of life and their power for transformation.

  

The Mammets are caricatures; invented emanations with their provenance partly built from factual evidence and retold human stories. Whilst each figure has an uncertain heritage and timelessness, the Romany reference is drawn from familial myths. Made from repurposed family clothing, materials become fragments of memory and animated portals to the past. The work seeks to elevate the status of their existence whilst normality is poignantly observed, transporting audiences towards their remembered worlds. 

Cumulative, familial relationships are interwoven through layered narratives, hewn from fragments of memory made physical. The fragile surfaces create an ephemeral materiality; in the drying process, the clay shrinks creating fissures and wrinkles, a suggestion of the temporality of human life. The Mammets’ small scale is purposeful, heightening the sense of the uncanny and of difference. The use of the poetic is intentionally provocative used to question and reflect upon the truth of our memories.  

Biography

Visual Artist and Educator

Humanity and temporality are key themes explored within my visual arts practice and it is this interest in the human which drives the desire to connect and communicate ideas with others. The two aspects of my practice, art and education, are inextricably linked and important to me. 

Multidisciplinary Approach

Inspiration for the works evolve from a multitude of sources, especially the quotidian, the everyday we all encounter. The practice is not contained to one material or technique. Freedom is sought through artistic discourse and play. 

Collaboration

Email to negotiate projects, collaborations and for individual or group tutoring workshops. 

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