About

As an interdisciplinary artist, Harriet’s practice is grounded in metaphor. Rooted in practice-based research her work aims to question our own ecology and digital landscape. Currently utilising lichens, their symbiotic nature and the surfaces they inhabit to investigate the dichotomy between the biotic and digital surface. Lichens are (at least) two organisms in a perfect symbiotic relationship, one cannot survive without the other: Fungus and Algae together to exist within their environment.

Exploiting a variety of environments, lichenology, mycology and sociology, Harriet’s practice continues to interpolate boundaries, often involving augmented reality, digital technologies, and physical sculpture to translate surfaces through digital realms to visualise where our autonomy stops and the algorithm begins.

Harriet has curated exhibitions since 2013. Sustainable curation is a key aspect of her practice, and haspublished an abstract from her paper in the Fusion Learning in Excellence Colloquium that explores the notion of the climate agenda in undergraduate creative courses, using the narrative of sustainable exhibitions as a framework for organic integration of Education for Sustainable Development