Harriet Links
Harriet explores identity, perception, and the emotional terrain of lived experience through abstraction. Working from imagined landscapes, her paintings navigate the space between presence and absence, where shifting forms become metaphors for the continual shaping of self. Drawing on the atmosphere of growing up in Australia during the 1980s, Harriet transforms personal experience into expansive, open-ended works that resist fixed narratives. Through layered surfaces and restrained palettes, the paintings consider how identity is formed through accumulation, erosion, and reflection, revealing a quiet tension between what is concealed and what gradually comes into view.
2026 Solo Show
Harriet Links uses imagined landscapes to explore identity as fluid and continually evolving. Mountains emerge and dissolve, horizons blur, and forms drift between presence and absence. These shifting terrains become metaphors for transformation, shaped through accumulation, erosion, and time.
Material process is central to the work. Oil paint is stained directly into raw linen, allowing colour to permeate the fabric before layers are rubbed back, scratched into, and reworked. The resulting surfaces retain traces of earlier gestures, embodying a process of continual revision and emergence.
Through this interplay of construction and removal, the paintings reflect identity as something layered rather than fixed. Quiet and atmospheric, they create contemplative spaces where stillness, ambiguity, and slow looking are given room to unfold.