Harland Viney is an Australian artist living in rural England. Working across painting, photography, film and printmaking, Harland studied at Bath Spa University and the University of Tasmania, graduating in the UK in 2011.
Harland’s work explores the psyche, desire, and natural forces in this latest collection of landscape paintings. Referencing traditions of Japanese woodblock prints, Australian landscape painting, spiritualist symbolism and childhood stories, Harland’s works capture the beauty and vastness of nature transformed into other worldly landscapes. The sites depicted represent real locations which are layered upon with internal psychological spaces from the artists inner self. Water is a recurrent theme, with the stillness and reflectivity doubling up the landscape and offering a moment of stillness. Moons, suns, growth, weather, water and plant life form part of an eternal uninterrupted flow of nature, depicted in otherworldly colours that reinforce a sense of otherness and the uncanny.
Their style is one of exploration and extrication. The black and white portraits and landscape paintings intentionally convey layers of manipulation. The artist emphasises shifting states and ambiguity to delve into our paradoxical relationship with nature and the unknown.
Harland was selected for the prestigious John Ruskin Prize in 2017, ING in 2020, ASP shows in 2021, and has featured in many independent magazines: Shots, Diffusion Magazine, F-Stop and SIETIES, to name a few. Their work is in collections in the USA, UK, and has been included in many international exhibitions.
Links
Rise Art profile and works for sale
Interview in Visual Arts South West
Education
2011 BA Fine Art (hons) First Class, Bath Spa University and University of Tasmania
Awards
2017
Shortlisted for the 4th John Ruskin Prize, U.K.
Selected for Mothership Residency, Dorset, UK.
2015
Selected for A Time and A Place, Cirencester.
Selected for Line and Mass, Bournemouth.
2014
Selected for residency at The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, UK.
2013
Shortlisted for Fotofilmic exhibition, Canada.
2012
Work selected for AMPS, Photofusion, London, UK.
2011
Shortlisted for Animating Me, won 3rd place in public vote, UK.
Work selected for Next to Nothing, Hampstead Heath, UK.
2010
Shortlisted for No Women No Peace, work produced as post card, UK.
Work purchased by Bath Spa University, UK.
2009
Longlisted for Exeter Contemporary Open, UK.
Publications
2019
Diffusion Magazine: Issue X, USA.
2018
F-stop Magazine: Altered Image: Issue 89, USA
Diffusion Magazine: Issue IX. Open theme. USA
2017
SEITIES magazine, Theme: Portrait. Feature Artist. Canada
Visual Arts South West, Artist of the Month for July. UK
2016
F-Stop Magazine, Issue 77: Family. USA.
2014
Plates to Pixels, online art feature, USA.
2013
ArtNoise, online Italian art magazine, September Issue. Italy.
SHOTS magazine: Issue 121, The Five Senses
Diffusion Magazine: Issue V, A Proclamation For Unconventional Photography. USA
F-Stop magazine; Issue 59 True/False. USA
SHOTS magazine: Issue 119: Creatures. USA
2012
AMPS: Photofusion Salon 2012. Published by Blurb. UK.
SHOTS Magazine: Issue 116: Open theme. Work published on cover. USA
Exhibitions
2023
Affordable Ar Fair Hampstead, London, UK
Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
West Bristol Arts Trail - October 14-15th, UK
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, UK
2022
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, UK.
You live in the paradise of your own creation, Babylon Gallery, Ely, UK.
A room of her own, Irving Contemporary, Oxford, UK.
Dorset Art weeks, Bridport, UK.
2021
Dorset art week, Bridport, UK
ASP Show, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK.
2020
ING Discerning Eye, London, UK.
2019
Diffusion Exhibition, SE Centre for Photography, South Carolina, USA.
Bridport Open Studios, Dorset, UK.
2018
166th Annual Open, RWA, Bristol, UK.
Time Machine, Galerie Sehnsucht, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Open 2018, selected by Christy Karpinski, Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA.
2017
Living Lines, Bridport Arts Centre, UK.
Artist as Polymath, John Ruskin Prize 2017, The Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, U.K.
May Day May Day, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, UK.
2016
The Curious Beast, DCCA, Poundbury, UK.
Secret Art Sale, Bridport Arts Centre, UK.
Bad Behaviour, Brixton, UK.
Lost Vignettes, Dorset Centre for the Creative Arts, Poundbury, UK.
2015
Line and Mass, Bournemouth Emerging Arts Fringe, UK.
Bridport Open Studios, Dorset, UK.
6x9, Bridport Art Centre, Bridport. Tower Gallery, Frome, UK.
Evolver Prize 2015, Thelma Hubert Gallery, Honiton, UK.
Wanderlust, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK.
The Working End, Bridport Museum, UK.
A Time and a Place, New Brewery Arts, Cirencester, UK.
2014
Dreams and Hallucinations, Darkroom Gallery, Vermont, USA.
The Art of Handmade and Alternative Photography, Vermont Centre for Photography, USA.
What do we do now, R&D by the sea, Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, UK.
2013
Open Drawing Competition ’13, Salisbury Arts Centre, UK.
Curiouser and Curiouser, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont, USA.
Uncertain Futures, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland.
Australia, Excerpt Magazine online exhibit.
Fotofilmic Online Publication and Final Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada.
2012
AMPS, Photofusion, London, UK.
Spooky Show IV, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Astoria, USA.
2x2x2, Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport, UK.
2011
Central St Martins MA Show, London, UK.
Next to Nothing, Hampstead Heath Scavenger Hunt, London, UK.
Animating Me, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, UK.
We Can Rebuild Her, David West Gallery, Lyme Regis, UK.
I slip amongst you, Lyric Theatre, Bridport, UK.
2010
No Women No Peace, GAPS, London, UK.
97 miles west, Free Range Art and Design Show, Old Truman Brewery, London, UK.
Graduate Show, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK.
Selected Works, Dartmouth Avenue exhibition space, Bath, UK.