Working predominately in sculpture and installation, my work centres around sensory experience and perceptual encounters. Most recently I have been exploring how bodily perception can cultivate resilience in the face of disorientation. With societal and environmental uncertainty, feelings of instability can arise and we seek out connection. I explore how we connect with; our bodies, each other and our environment through the senses available to us. Creating interactive and mixed media artworks that reference sensory and inclusive design, contact improvisation, architectural scenography and play. I aim to create moments of connectivity and shared experience.
Naomi Harwin Studio Artist at Paradise Works
Education
EDUCATION
2011 – 2014 First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art – Norwich University of the Arts
SOLO SHOWS
2020 Encounter - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK
2015 ‘O’ - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/ COMMISSIONS
2023 Breathe Rest Play, In Transit, Online
Bankley Exchanges .1 - Bankley Studio & Gallery, Manchester UK
2021 Northside House - Hospital Rooms, Norwich UK
2019 To be an object is to possess a boundary - 1961 Projects at In Personam, Singapore
2018 Non-Working Hours - 1961 Projects, Singapore
2017 We: You, Me - Firstsite, Colchester UK
SWAP Editions AD HOC & TRADE - Artlicks Weekend - SET, London UK
The Library - McAulay Gallery at Tate Modern, London UK
The Clunker - The Playhouse and Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich UK
SWAP Editions AD HOC - CASTOR Projects, London UK
2016 in between things - Nunns Yard, Norwich UK
Circuit Unlocks Digital - The Junction, Cambridge UK
2015 Wysing Editions - SUNDAY Art Fair - Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London UK
Shades of Yellow - Embassy Tea Gallery, London UK
2014 In the Window: Parts and Wholes - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent UK
Process - STEW Gallery, Norwich UK
RESIDENCIES / EDUCATION PROJECTS
2023 In Transit Training Residency: Making Your Art Accessible
2022 -23 Contact Theatre X BBC Mentoring Programme
2022 Critical Exchange Network
2021 Night school VII – East Bristol Contemporary (Online)
2020 Distant Dialogues
2017 Island Walk - St Ives, Cambridgeshire UK
2016-17 Circuit Cambridge - Kettle’s Yard & Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge UK
2014-15 Graduate Residency - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent UK
2012 Wysing Young Artists in Residence - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge UK
EDITIONS
2017 SWAP Editions - Edition No.1 AD HOC
2015 Ambergris editions - Wysing Studio Artist Kitchen Foil Print Portfolio
SYMPOSIUM CONTRIBUTIONS/ TALKS
2021 Art and Mental Health: Facing the Future Symposium, Norwich University of the Arts and Hospital Rooms (Online)
2020 Fine Art Research Unit, Cambridge School of Art – Guest Lecturer
2019 Strategies, Professional Practice symposium, Norwich University of the Arts – Guest Lecturer
2017 MK College – Guest Lecturer
PRESS
2022 MUKA X Paradise Works: Naomi Harwin Interview
2019 Feature - Minimal Zine Issue 01, Spain, EU
2018 inFloat. Feature and Interview
2017 Axisweb - Artist of the Month: Naomi Harwin