D a i s y H a r c o u r t
W o m e n & W o r d
Town House Spitalfields, 21st March - 21st April 2024
In this series I invited 14 contemporary women to write about their formative experiences of the written and spoken word. Each participant revealed their favourite words and discussed the writers and books that had influenced them. It was while considering what each sitter had written that I created each portrait.
Women & Word Review
Matilda Warner for Univ in the Arts
‘ Facing a pictorial representation of oneself is not something with which everyone is comfortable, but Daisy’s ability to translate self-descriptions and favourite words into portraits brimming with personality – whether conveyed by a vivid background, their facial expression, words spelled around their heads, a breeze through their hair, or even a particular glint in their eyes – is a work of artistic magic. It is a true collaboration of the artist and the sitter. ‘
T i r z a h
Modern Women Artists
In 2022 I created illustrated portraits of artist Eileen Mayo (book 8) potter Lucie Rie (book 9) and artist Tirzah Garwood (book 10) for Eiderdown Books . Eiderdown Books is an independent publisher making books about Modern Women Artists written by leading female writers, art historians and cultural commentators.
Women & Word
Female writers and literary characters feature in this portrait series. Link to an interview with me during the exhibition of this work at Weald Contemporary in October 2023 below.
Women & Word portrait series no. 3
In this portrait series I invited writers, poets, a stone carver, zine maker, journalists, poets, a teacher, a lecturer and a curator to write about their connections to word. I drew a portrait of each sitter whilst considering their writing; the portraits and written pieces were exhibited and produced in a book.
People & Plants portrait series no. 2
This portrait series was on show at Oxmarket Contemporary in April 2022.
Each very generous sitter shared their relationship to plants, from formative experiences to their current involvement and passion for plants in a written piece which was displayed beside each portrait.
Women & Water portrait series no. 1
Artist Spotlight
Interview with Manderley Press
Is the house in Sea II inspired by an actual building or place?
I have very happy childhood memories of family holidays on the Devon and Cornwall coast; although not an actual building or place, the scene perhaps represents those places.