Orchestrations: Paintings and Drawings by Harriet Bright

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June 2013

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Orchestrations
Paintings and Drawings by Harriet Bright. Sculpture by Bodhi Vincent.
Upstairs gallery, St James' Theatre, Courtenay Place.
1 - 17 July 2013

DRAWING FROM PERFORMANCE

From orchestra practices to local jamming sessions, midnight drumming sessions on the beach to artists in recording studios, award-winning painter Harriet Bright has spent the last year drawing and painting musicians.

In her latest exhibition orchestrations at, appropriately, the St James Theatre Wellington Bright translates musical performances into performances of the pen and brush, relating through line and colour the joy, energy and flow of people absorbed in making music.

"I don't play an instrument but when I'm with a group of musicians it's like I'm jamming through drawing," says Bright, who in 2010 won the coveted Adam National Award for Portraiture. "I try and convey the movement that's in both the sound I hear and the repetitive movements in playing their instruments."

Bright is well known for the excellence of her figurative work, with a particular interest in working from life. During the exhibition she is inviting the public to sit for drawing sessions in the gallery, providing the exhibition with its own live performance element.

Bright's paintings and drawings will sit alongside other portrait and figure work, and will be complemented by the meditative sculptures of fellow Kapiti artist Bodhi Vincent. The exhibition runs from Monday the first to the seventeenth of July.

Biography
Harriet Bright was born in the UK in 1973, and studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art, and then Brighton College of Art 1990-1993. In 2007 Bright moved to New Zealand on the Kapiti Coast. She has had solo shows at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Art, Mahara gallery, the Kapiti Gallery, St. Art gallery and South Coast gallery. She has been part of numerous group exhibitions. In 2010 she won the Adam award for Portraiture, and was a finalist for the NZ Art Show Signature Award.

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