Harriet Mena Hill
EAGLE GALLERY CABINET ROOM
14 April – 14 May 2021
We are delighted to be re-opening on 14 April with a solo exhibition by Harriet Mena Hill in the Eagle Gallery Cabinet Room.
The Aylesbury Fragments continues a vein in Hill’s practice of using found objects as the starting point for paintings of un-peopled, architectural landscapes, to speak of the inner landscapes of the mind. Painting in oil, on supports of concrete salvaged from recently demolished blocks on a 1960s South London housing estate, she re-purposes the random fragments to form a visual record of the original buildings.
As if breaking open a stone to expose a gem within, the images reveal a formal beauty in the geometric lines and grids of the Brutalist towers and speak with poignancy of the individual lives lived within. Imbued with nostalgia, details of night-lit windows, washing fluttering on balconies, or a graffiti tag, are evidence of the human presence.
The series has been influenced by her involvement running workshops in tandem with the 2 Inspire Youth Club on the Aylesbury Estate for the last three years. Supported by funding from Notting Hill Genesis and Southwark Council Neighbourhood Fund, she has worked with residents to share and record memories of living in one of the foremost and largest examples of social housing built in London at the time.
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