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HARRIET MENA HILL

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Opening Thursday 10 July 6-8.30pm
10 July - 2nd August
Thurs - Sat 2-6pm

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Harriet Mena Hill is a British artist who became known in the early 1990’s for her depictions of imagined architectural spaces painted on gesso, on found objects, which spoke of the inner landscapes of the mind. These metaphysical wanderings developed into a complex gridscape world she explored for over a decade which manifested in ‘Mapping the Grid’ at the Chapter House, Worcester Cathedral in 2012

 

Since 2018 she has worked extensively with residents on the Aylesbury Estate in South East London researching the connection of memory and place in light of the pending demolition of the entire estate.

 ‘Hills' paintings repurpose the salvaged material to form a fragmented visual record of the original buildings. The images reveal a formal beauty in the geometric lines and grids of the Brutalist towers and speak with poignancy of the individual lives lived within. Appearing almost like relics and imbued with nostalgia,their details of night - lit windows, washing fluttering on balconies or a graffiti tag are evidence of the human presence, 

Whilst acknowledging the inevitability of change in any urban environment the work seeks to give a voice to communities and individuals who are often overlooked by civic planners.’