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Dr Harriet Carter

Lecturer in Fine Art

CREATIVE ARTS
Harriet Carter is an artist and researcher based in the UK. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at University of Gloucestershire.

Biography

Harriet Carter is an artist and researcher based in the UK. She explores landscapes and the agents that comprise them through a painting practice. Harriet is particularly interested in capturing ideas of (non)languages through mark-making.

Harriet has exhibited work in the UK, Poland, and Hong Kong. She undertakes artist residencies to foster her research into drawing encounters with the landscape; in 2014 with the Sidney Nolan Trust, Wales, in 2016 and 2017 with Garage Studios, Worcester, and 2022 with the Museum of Loss and Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy.

Qualifications

Harriet graduated with a BA Fine Art and Education Studies degree in 2014, an MRes Fine Art in 2017, both from the University of Worcester. In 2022, she graduated with a PhD Arts, Design and Media from Birmingham City University.

Awards

In 2014, Harriet received the Elmley Foundation Award for a suite of paintings and was awarded an AHRC Midlands4Cities funded PhD in 2018.

Accreditation

  • SEDA
  • Fellow (FHEA)

Membership of professional bodies

Harriet is a member of the research groups ‘Cultural Literacy Everywhere’ and the ‘Experiential Translation Network’.

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Harriet’s teaching practice is research-led. Her active research underpins and informs current methodological and contextual enquiry in art making. She is focused on practice research, teaching the ways in which knowledge surrounding making art is developing through art practice. Teaching across a broad range of disciplines, Harriet explores ways to craft methodologies from drawing from encounters in the world.

Harriet teaches Fine Art practice in undergraduate modules in Drawing, Studio Practice, and Practice-based research. She also supervises doctoral research.

 

Research

Harriet’s research uses materials to think through themes of perceiving encounters with the landscape. Harriet uses drawing to transcribe experiences with birdsong, weather, flora and fauna, and aromas, live, as they happen. She explores how the language of drawing chases transient things in the landscape that withhold themselves; their language evasive, always residing on the borderlands of comprehension. Often working directly onto canvas substrates, the transcriptions are taken into her studio to develop the marks, cultivating, and composing surfaces. She is currently undertaking interdisciplinary, collaborative research with Cultural Studies Education at King’s College London, exploring the ‘asemic’.

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