Grounded in process Naomi Harwin’s practice observes the relational qualities of objects and forms in correspondence with space. Considering how we organise and interpret visual information, Harwin reflects on how we might comprehend objects through the aid of models and images. Most recently her work has been activated through her creation of forms that compress and manipulate line. Evaluating, extracting and deconstructing these objects, Harwin explores the dialogue between the form and its represented image, identifying the parts and pieces that make up the ‘whole’.
Through the use of shape, line and colour, the works become a descriptive interplay of spatial structure, materiality and mapping. Continuously shifting between two and three dimensions, surface and object. These exchanges, interactions and re-appropriations consider the interchangeable states of objecthood.
Manifesting as collections of information the dialogue and spatial engagement amongst works aims to form an awareness of the ‘whole’ and one’s own relation to it.
Naomi Harwin Studio Artist at Wysing Arts Centre
Education
2011 – 2014 – First Class BA (HONS) Fine Art – Norwich University of the Arts
Exhibitions
2020 Encounter - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge, UK (Solo)
2019 To be an object is to possess a boundary - 1961 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 at SUNDAY Art Fair - Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, UK
Shades of Yellow - Embassy Tea Gallery, London, UK
O - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent, UK (Solo)
2014 In the Window: Parts and Wholes - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent, UK
Process - STEW Gallery, Norwich, UK
Editions
2017 SWAP Editions - Edition No.1 AD HOC
2015 Ambergris editions - Wysing Studio Artist Kitchen Foil Print Portfolio
Residencies/Projects
09.2017 Island Walk - St Ives, Cambridgeshire, UK
04.2016 - 08.2017 Circuit Cambridge - Kettle’s Yard & Wysing Arts Centre
08.2014 - 01.2015 Graduate Residency - Airspace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent, UK
07.2012 - 09.2012 Wysing Young Artists in Residence - Wysing Arts Centre, UK
Press
05.2019 Feature - Minimal Zine Issue 01, Spain, EU
01.2018 Feature and inFloat. Feature and Interview
03.2017 Axisweb - Artist of the Month
