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Rebecca Harris

With imaginative flair, Rebecca Harris invents pictorial worlds and invites us to explore them. Her use of oil paint is sensuous and skilled. Beautifully rendered detail and pinpricks of colour, overlay oily fields of loose underpainting, scribed with the hard end of the brush for linear expression. At times, her paintings are almost sci-fi in their strangeness; at other times she reflects nature more precisely. But always, her own imagination and the acuteness of her viewing inflect the mood.

“Her paintings have a distinct surrealistic and fairy tale flavour to them, finding inspiration in the forms of nature and landscape to confect delightful dream worlds.”
Andrew Paul Wood

Harris graduated with an MFA in painting at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts in 2013 after previously completing a degree in Art and Craft Design at the Christchurch Polytechnic. She has exhibited painting and ceramic sculptural works throughout New Zealand. Her work is included in private collections throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and represented in the Wallace Collection and Paris Family collection. In 2014 she was a recipient of the Ethel Susan Jones Fine Art Travelling Scholarship.

 

Exhibitions:
2024 – Sprinkled
2022 – Stealth of Light
2020 – Dark Burns the Night, Flirty Bird Flies
2019 – Somewhere to Go

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Media:
Feb 2021, review by Jasmine Gallagher in Art NZ 177
March 2020, Rebecca Harris featured in NZ House and Garden
May 2016, Andrew Paul Wood on Rebecca Harris for Eye Contact
May 2015, Rebecca Harris featured in NZ Herald article