Work in progress – upcoming exhibition

With a group exhibition fast approaching at the end of June I am making a new body of work that explores the narrative objects and places hold, acting as containers of memories and experience. Thinking about how we might seek out feelings of full attention through meditation, quiet moments and a focus on the breath the work will re-stage this feeling of pause. Attempting to open up, draw out and elongate a moment I hope to create a feeling of lightness through a loose world building of suspended forms and accompanying audio track.

A series of plastic tubes and T connectors painted in cobalt blue drying on a workbench in the middle of Naomi’s studio — Drying pipes and connectors before assembly

Constructed cobalt blue pipes in a ladder like formation held up against a white wall — Drying pipes and connectors before assembly

Naomi Harwin

Working predominately in sculpture and installation, Naomi Harwin’s work centres around sensory experience and perceptual encounters. Most recently she has been exploring how bodily perception can cultivate resilience in the face of disorientation. With societal and environmental uncertainty, feelings of instability can arise and we seek out connection. Harwin explores how we connect with; our bodies, each other and our environment through the senses available to us. Creating interactive and mixed media artworks that reference sensory and inclusive design, contact improvisation, architectural scenography and play, she aims to create moments of connectivity and shared experience. Naomi Harwin graduated from Norwich University of the Arts in 2014 and more recently participated in East Bristol Contemporary’s Night School VII in 2021. She was a Studio Artist at Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridge from 2015 to 2021 and is now a Studio Member at Paradise Works in Manchester. Previous commissions, exhibitions and features include: Hospital Rooms at Northside House, Norwich (2021), Encounter, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2020), To be an object is to possess a boundary, 1961 Projects, In Personam, Singapore (2019), Like-minded, Minimal Zine issue 01 (2019), Non-working hours, 1961 Projects , Singapore(2018), We:You,Me, Firstsite, Colchester (2017), AD HOC + TRADE Swap Editions, Art Licks, SET and Castor Projects, London (2017), in between things, Nunns Yard, Norwich (2016) and ‘O’, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (2015).