Harriet Body
Yours
21 jan. — 5 mar. 2022
21 jan. — 5 mar. 2022
Harriet Body
Image: Barebones Landscape, 2020, copper nails, cotton thread, ceramic fingerprints with mud and pulverised rocks sourced from Collector/Colegar in Gundungurra language, NSW
Yours
Image: Barebones Landscape, 2020, copper nails, cotton thread, ceramic fingerprints with mud and pulverised rocks sourced from Collector/Colegar in Gundungurra language, NSW
Harriet Body
Yours
21 jan. — 5 mar. 2022
In collaboration with Amy, Ali Bell, Maree Bell, Bushy, Catherine, George, Gordon, Fiona Humphries, Jazelle, Lilith, Manny, Oscar, Sally, Hinia Sulovic and Tommy.
Yours’ is a major new solo exhibition from Harriet Body that embeds collaborative ways of making into the Goulburn community. Throughout 2021 Body will work with seniors and children, facilitating a series of creative workshops inspired by rural landscapes to inspire storytelling, connection, and collaboration between these participants who are at opposite stages of life. The workshops will bring the experiences of local children and seniors into the Gallery in an exhibition that explores life cycles and our connection to the earth and to each other.
Body works across painting, textiles and ceramics. Her creative process is slow and meditative. Through the repetition of mark-making or formshaping, her work is all about watching something grow, and then end. She works with natural materials to imbue her artworks with birth (egg yolk), life (plant dye), death (charcoal), and memory (pulverised rocks), allowing for audiences to recognise their life as a part of every life.
Harriet’s practice also engages with communities. She was co-Director of ARTBEAT, an accessible free-form movement class for people of all ages and abilities. Body also collaborates with and provides workshops for different community groups with access requirements including people with dementia, living with mental health distress, and with disability.
This project has been supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. Thanks to Pejar Local Aboriginal Land Council for sharing their knowledge and providing significant consultation and advice.
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Creative workshop with Harriet Body + CASE Incubators
Harriet Body + Yvette Dal Pozzo
Harriet Body 'Yours', Robbie Howard and Karen Edin
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Installation view Harriet Body Yours introductory text panel. Photograph Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Aryssa McAlister, Wiradjuri people, Gunda Maradal (Hidden Past) series including Steam Museum – Campsite, Goulburn Train Station - Corroboree Site, Rocky Hill - Men’s Place, Eastgrove Fields - Massacre Site and Mulwaree Ponds - Women’s Place, 2021; and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Aryssa McAlister, Wiradjuri people, Gunda Maradal (Hidden Past) series including Steam Museum – Campsite, Goulburn Train Station - Corroboree Site, Rocky Hill - Men’s Place, Eastgrove Fields - Massacre Site and Mulwaree Ponds - Women’s Place, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, (detail), 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, (detail rear view), 2021, Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021, and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, (detail), 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, (detail) 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, (detail) 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Image: Barebones Landscape, 2020, copper nails, cotton thread, ceramic fingerprints with mud and pulverised rocks sourced from Collector/Colegar in Gundungurra language, NSW
Harriet Body
Yours
21 jan. — 5 mar. 2022
In collaboration with Amy, Ali Bell, Maree Bell, Bushy, Catherine, George, Gordon, Fiona Humphries, Jazelle, Lilith, Manny, Oscar, Sally, Hinia Sulovic and Tommy.
Yours’ is a major new solo exhibition from Harriet Body that embeds collaborative ways of making into the Goulburn community. Throughout 2021 Body will work with seniors and children, facilitating a series of creative workshops inspired by rural landscapes to inspire storytelling, connection, and collaboration between these participants who are at opposite stages of life. The workshops will bring the experiences of local children and seniors into the Gallery in an exhibition that explores life cycles and our connection to the earth and to each other.
Body works across painting, textiles and ceramics. Her creative process is slow and meditative. Through the repetition of mark-making or formshaping, her work is all about watching something grow, and then end. She works with natural materials to imbue her artworks with birth (egg yolk), life (plant dye), death (charcoal), and memory (pulverised rocks), allowing for audiences to recognise their life as a part of every life.
Harriet’s practice also engages with communities. She was co-Director of ARTBEAT, an accessible free-form movement class for people of all ages and abilities. Body also collaborates with and provides workshops for different community groups with access requirements including people with dementia, living with mental health distress, and with disability.
This project has been supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW. Thanks to Pejar Local Aboriginal Land Council for sharing their knowledge and providing significant consultation and advice.
Related Events
Creative workshop with Harriet Body + CASE Incubators
Harriet Body + Yvette Dal Pozzo
Harriet Body 'Yours', Robbie Howard and Karen Edin
17
Installation view Harriet Body Yours introductory text panel. Photograph Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Aryssa McAlister, Wiradjuri people, Gunda Maradal (Hidden Past) series including Steam Museum – Campsite, Goulburn Train Station - Corroboree Site, Rocky Hill - Men’s Place, Eastgrove Fields - Massacre Site and Mulwaree Ponds - Women’s Place, 2021; and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Aryssa McAlister, Wiradjuri people, Gunda Maradal (Hidden Past) series including Steam Museum – Campsite, Goulburn Train Station - Corroboree Site, Rocky Hill - Men’s Place, Eastgrove Fields - Massacre Site and Mulwaree Ponds - Women’s Place, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body (concept) and Sammy Hawker (videographer), I hope I can still climb trees when I’m old. You might not climb them … but you’ll watch, 2021, Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, (detail), 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, (detail rear view), 2021, Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body, A tree is a passage between earth and sky, 2021, and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, 2021 and Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, Trees keep their stories in their growth rings, (detail), 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, (detail) 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, (detail) 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.
Installation view Harriet Body Yours featuring Harriet Body in collaboration with Yours participants, We grew up amongst trees, 2021. Photograph: Karlee Holland.