Caroline Jane Harris creates complex, beautiful pieces which echo the intricate, organic patterns found in nature – the branches of a tree, the veins in a body, some even look like electromagnetic pulses. Her fascinating process is a mix of digital renderings of pattern templates, and the painstaking, “mediative” hand-cutting of paper which she says, “introduces the random: chaos and asymmetry.”
She says: ”My work is positioned around a continuous dialogue between historical and contemporary techniques of printmaking, drawing and photography. Through my process I investigate spaces and connections between the physical, immaterial, digital and ‘natural’, to form a relationship between the observed and the observer. As seen in nature, the pieces build in layers over time, resulting in hybrid objects that index both the computational and the artist’s attention. My process-based works often involve de-constructing and re-forming an image by means of digital intervention to using a scalpel to cut-away details by hand; pencil rubbings to reveal a surface or colour mixing through multi-plate transparency etchings.”
Caroline Jane Harris: A Bright Haunting @ ASC Gallery, Taplow House, Thurlow Street – Elephant & Castle (to Aug 3)
