Harlesden High Street

About the Gallery
Harlesden High Street was founded with the mission of facilitating access between experimental/outsider artists and the traditional gallery system. We host several spaces across London exhibiting contemporary art by local and international artists, centering work by people of colour. In addition to our exhibition venues, we host a cultural outreach programme with an aim to reach audiences in ungentrified neighborhoods who might be less likely to engage with typical gallery programming. 

Our main space in Harlesden proudly only hosts people of colour in our programme, external and offsite spaces hosts an experimental programme transcending borders.

About the Presentation
Harlesden High Street will present work by Savannah Harris in a solo presentation, marking Savannah Harris' New York debut. Harris' (b. 1999) practice can be read as a stream of consciousness that ebbs and flows into complex geologically inspired environments. Her works are intuitively entangled with texture and colour whilst the act of painting becomes performative as she continuously deconstructs the space of the canvas; symbiotically referencing deep geological time and presence. For Independent, Harlesden High Street will present a solo booth of six large-scale works by Harris that embody a feeling of emerging, each painting works in tandem with the next, articulating an understanding of time through deconstructing layers of the earth's formation, its structure and composition, and the types of processes acting on it.