Savannah Harris
Savannah Harris's practice can be read as a stream of consciousness that ebbs and flows into complex environments. Her works are intuitively entangled with geometric shapes, texture and colour. Informed by geological and archaeological processes that have shaped and reshaped the earth. The act of painting becomes performative as she continuously deconstructs the space of the canvas; mimicking the faults, folds and traces present within the earth. The context and matter of the works reflects a porosity and mutability found within intricate geological landscapes, these reflections also present themselves in the slow build up of the multi-layered paintings. Often incorporating sand, tying to her Caribbean and Cuban heritage and a symbiotic reference to deep time, the works become organic renderings of a journey toward becoming. Revived from buried memories, the sand in her paintings invoke a history of lived experience. Harris is a London based artist. She has completed her BA (Hons) in Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts London in 2020. Following on to study MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art and is a recipient of the Basil. H. Alkazzi Scholarship 2021-2023.
b. 1999, London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026
Undo, Gathering, Ibiza, Spain
2025
Immanence, Vardaxoglou, London, UK Independent Art Fair, Harlesden High Street, New York, USA
2024
An Ocean of Storms, Harlesden High Street, London, UK Frieze, Harlesden High Street London, UK Voyage, Morena di Luna/Maureen Paley, Brighton, UK Bump Matt Carey-Williams, No. 9 Frieze Cork Street, London, UK
2023
Into The Shimmer, Harlesden High Street, London, UK Link me at the Sound System ‘23, Harlesden High Street, London, UK Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK On The Verge Of Its Own Disappearing, Wilder Gallery, London, UK No.34, PM/AM London, UK