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All Mouth co-founders Jack Chauncy and Georg Wilson chat to Harriet Gillett about two artworks, 'The empty chair' (2020) by Harriet Gillett and 'Cats' (2018) by Florian Krewer.

Harriet Gillett (b.1995, East Yorkshire) is a painter and printmaker from East Yorkshire, currently based in London. Her work explores some of the dualities she sees around her, seeking to offer a space where multiple narratives exist at once. Working from a combination of observational drawing and imagination and drawing reference from a range of literary sources, she looks to create psychological landscapes which blur the lines between the tradition and the contemporary, abstraction and figuration, dream and reality; to touch upon wider themes of identity, surveillance and escapism. She employs a variety of materials and processes, often mixing together seemingly opposing subjects, colours and painting languages within one image in order to playfully reflect our contradictory relationship to our own environments. The merging of vibrant watercolours or layering of murky oil over neon spray-paint enacts memory’s ability to distort things and our desire to sugar-coat the past, aiming to give both a glimpse of nostalgia towards shared rituals and spaces, whilst also acknowledging the diversity of perspective.

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All Mouth co-founders Jack Chauncy and Georg Wilson chat to Ranald Macdonald about two artworks, 'Up in the Air' (2020) by Ranald Macdonald and 'Sketchers by the Stream' (1951) by Milton Avery. 

Ranald Macdonald graduated from City & Guilds Art School in 2020 and is now enrolled on the Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School. Ranald's work is about the experience of reality and its relationship to visual media. Working from imagination, he draws on visual cliches and archetypes from art history and popular culture to make imagery. Ranald is interested in figures that have both a hieroglyphic-like readability, and yet also through their overuse, a strange emptiness, like a word repeated too many times. 

"I see my process as an excavation whereby the characters lead me to an image, which when rendered faithfully can have its own life, becoming a liminal space between the real and the imagined to be entered and experienced on its own terms."

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