Monday 10th - Sunday 23rd July
Open to Public: Fridays and Saturdays 10-3pm
Public show night: Friday 21st 6-8pm
Rhian will use the residency to continue to develop her work on aerial topography, focussing her research on the surrounding landscape. Rhian intends to combine the abstract and detached qualities found in satellite imaging and aerial photography with the more pictorial and experiential approach of walking in the local landscape. Using the gallery’s layout as a grid map Rhian will treat the space as a landscape and investigate different ways of presenting her work to equip the viewer with a birds-eye perspective.
About Rhian:
Rhian Harris-Mussi (b.1997) is a London based artist working across sculpture, drawing and video to explore concerns around future archaeologies and the intersection between outer-space and earth, ecology and science-fiction. Her interest in the relationship between history and future world building is often visualised in incorporating traditional craft techniques into a contemporary art practice. Much of her work explores the overview effect; a shift in awareness that occurs when viewing the earth from space. When surveyed from an aerial view, subjects are often made miniature, at times become flattened or abstracted and touch on the uncanny - drifting between worlds. From crop circles to UFO landing sites and open to closed ecosystems, Rhian’s work references landscapes from works of science fiction and the Gloucestershire countryside where she grew up.
Rhian studied Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (2016-2019), where she was nominated for the Kevin Slingsby award for Funnel Vision and awarded the John Farthing Prize by the University of Oxford and the Vivien Leigh Prize by the Ashmolean Museum. Rhian has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in London including Vague Terrain at SET Lewisham (2022); Pathways on Paper at South Parade (2022); A Fabricator’s Tale at Guest Projects Digital (2021); There Lay the World Wedged at WhiteBox Gallery (2019) as well as Gloaming and Estival at Weven in Stroud (2021/2023). In August 2022 she completed a scholarship in joinery and marquetry at Highgrove School of Traditional Craft.
