'My practice explores the transitional space between reality and imagination. A constant yearning to understand dreams, distant memories, and mutating shapes in the dark informs the progression of each artwork. T

he work is process-led: often using fluid layers of ink as a base, to then find and highlight emerging forms. Considering the fragility of dreams and memories, the work can build from splinters of multiple moments or feelings, into a scene, that fits neither into the compartment of a memory, or real life, or complete imagination. These liminal spaces mutate and take on new meaning with different perspectives.

They become spaces on the boundary of familiar and unknown, acting as an invitation to move away from immediate surroundings and instead, pause to consider the quiet space between knowing.'

Bankside Hotel x Contemporary Collective are thrilled to welcome abstract painter Georgina Harris to the Makers’ Studio as their next Artist in Residence. Bankside Hotel x Contemporary Collective are thrilled to welcome abstract painter Georgina Harris to the Makers’ Studio as their next Artist in Residence from 27th September - 6th December. London is 21 percent trees, which, according to the United Nations, makes London the world’s largest urban forest. With this in mind, whilst in residency Georgina will use painting to celebrate Lodnon’s green spaces and make work that explores our connection to urban trees.

Georgina will be painting the ‘lived experience’ of being in London, by taking her painting outside to create a series of ‘plein air’ abstract paintings. The artist also welcomes you to visit her in the studio, to share the green spots you cherish in the city. She will use these conversations and her own experience to paint alternate maps of the city, with the aim of celebrating the connection between people and place.

Read the press release here