my biography prior to starting the MA course, as of May 2007

to throw into the pot as i begin to define my practice......what's important and what's not?

Harriet is a visual artist, educator and arts director based in South London. She specialises in creating, teaching and co-ordinating projects within the visual and interactive arts, experimenting predominately with live and media arts, using photography, film and animation. She loves collaborating fusing together her work with other arts practitioners be it creating illustrative or interactive visuals for sound art, music, movement, spoken word.

She has had a range of visual commissions including for large scale visual-music-theatre work, ‘Sedna Stories,’ composed by Kerry Andrew, and a collaboration with voice (capella group , juice), ensemble and electronica artist Paul J Abbott which premiered in York, in 2005 and then Cargo, London June 2006 . This work embodied the theatricality of inuit folk tales. In July 2006 she created a visual score (film) for silent improvisation for 'Hausmusik' (Claudia Molitor – Klangsieben and Sound Source series for spnm - Society for promotion of new music) In September 2006, she created a film played live to sound art performance 'Solar Noise Generation' (SNG- Ash Sargant -!PLOVA) screened as part of Wormhole Saloon at the Whitechapel Art Gallery London . Currently she is collaborating with visual artist Specialchild in generating stop frame animations for folk electronica band The Woodcraft Folk. In March 2007 she played live visuals for Gobsmack, an experimental vocals night at The Spitz, London.

Her work can be playful, bright visual pop exploring the bezerk and the kitsch, the plastic and the misplaced, or monochrome and macabre; she is flexible and open to new adventures.

Harriet is heavily involved in visual arts and design education, with a variety of experiences in directing, teaching and collaborating within local and international schools and communities. She is currently in charge of Visual Arts and Design at a Performing and Creative Arts school in South London where she has been in post since 2001, and SSAT Lead practitioner for Visual and Digital Arts, delivering a seminar on performance art at the SSAT National Arts conference at the Barbican in February 2006. She is also Subject Mentor representative on the Teacher Education Board of the National Society for Education in Art and Design,(NSEAD.) In 2004-5 she developed a collaborative teaching project in Shenzhen, China sponsored by the British Council exploring international perceptions of identity though the visual arts. She previously taught Visual Arts to 16-19 students and adults in the Community Arts programme at a sixth form college, and in a community arts initiative First Base, both based in Brighton from 1998-2001.

Harriet has a BA (Hons) Fine Art (Staffordshire University, 1997), PGCE Art and Design (UWIC, 1998) and a PG CERT in Educational Leadership and Innovation (Warwick University, 2006) and is starting MA Theatre: Visual language of Performance in September 2007 (Wimbledon College of Art)