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Toni Harrower

Toni Harrower's work is beset with mathematical experiments in colour, composition, and scale. Within her systematic restraints and rules, the physicality of paint is allowed to gloriously resurface. Colours merge, layers build up, and Harrower's initial grid plans are both rescinded and accentuated. The passing of time becomes a creative form of its own – a process tangentially informed by her research into dementia and memory deterioration. In 2024, two paintings were included in the Visual Arts Scotland centenary exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, plus two in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Education

Gray's School of Art (2016)

Selected exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
(2024) Travelling eyes, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust, Aberdeen
(2023) Untitled, Moray Art Centre, Forres
(2023) May your thoughts write the rest, Duff House, Banff
(2023) Beyond Colour, Leith School of Art, Edinburgh
(2022) Lost on Purpose, The Long Room, Logie Steading, Forres
(2022) A sense of Place, Gallery Pop, Forres
(2021) The colour of what?, Art Studio, Garmouth
(2019) Fresh Thoughts, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
(2018) The Real and the Remembered, Elgin Library, Elgin
(2018) Colours you've forgotten, Moray Art Centre, Forres
(2017) A Closer Look, Nairn Art and Community Centre, Nairn
(2017) Edge-Lands, Moray Art Centre, Forres
Group Exhibitions
(2024) Gray's Painters, The Courtyard Artspace, Aberdeen
(2024) 198th RSA Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Online
(2024) RA Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London
(2023) Nowhere in particular, The Gallery, Elgin
(2023) SSA 130 years Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
(2023) WEST, The Briggait, Glasgow
(2022) REVERB, Visual Arts Scotland, Online
(2022) The 196th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
(2022) Aberdeen Artists Society Annual Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
(2022) ATS Members’ Exhibition, An Talla Solais, Ullapool
(2022) Members exhibition, Gallery Pop, Forres
(2022) PLOT, The Gallery, Elgin Library
(2022) NORTH, WASPS Creative Academy, Inverness
(2021) Members Exhibition, Gallery Pop, Forres
(2021) Moving Forward, The Fran, Online
(2020) The Resilient Self, Espacio Gallery, London
(2020) ATS MEMBERS’ EXHIBITION, An Talla Solais, Online
(2020) Flow, Visual Arts Scotland, Online
(2019) Edges of What?, Dundas Gallery, Edinburgh
(2019) XMASHUP, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
(2019) ATS Members' Exhibition, An Talla Solais, Ullapool
(2018) 20days20Artists, Upright Gallery, Edinburgh
(2018) Winter Open, Moray Art Centre, Forres
(2016) GC08, Lines to Paint, Arts Centre and Theatre, Aberdeen
(2016) Qualia, Number Seventeen Gallery, Aberdeen

Artist statement

My paintings follow a 'system' and a set of restraints that determine colour, composition and scale. Working from a colour-coded alphabet, the titles for each painting are extremely important as they are the starting point for making. Working in a repetitious manner, I create individual patterns and repeated geometric shapes which form a grid-like structure. The build-up of layers expresses the passing of time. As the paint gains depth and weight, gravity and a lack of control come into play, causing the paint to fall away. The paintings relate to uncontrollable events that happen in life – and several imply the notion of the mind falling apart.

Available works

Available works

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